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

Orson Welles

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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Drive Fast Myself Scare
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
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
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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
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 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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking

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