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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

Orson Welles

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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
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
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself

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