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Orson Welles

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
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
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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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Hate Learning Myself Woman
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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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
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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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

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