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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.

Orson Welles

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
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
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
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
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
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
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention

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