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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Orson Welles

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
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
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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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
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.
ORSON WELLES

Drive Fast Myself Scare
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity

Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

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