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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.

Orson Welles

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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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
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
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
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
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
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
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman

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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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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