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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.

Orson Welles

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
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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent

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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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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