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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.

Orson Welles

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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
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
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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