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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Orson Welles

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 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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman

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