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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Orson Welles

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Drive Fast Myself Scare
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

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