Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
ORSON WELLESI’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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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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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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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