I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLESCrooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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