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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.

Orson Welles

I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
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
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
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 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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
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
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity

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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