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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
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
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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

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