Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
ORSON WELLESHuman nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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