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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Orson Welles

Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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
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
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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