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" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "
Orson Welles
Accomplishment
Always
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" 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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" Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. "
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" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "
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" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "
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" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "
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" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "
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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. "
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" I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. "
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" We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. "
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" I never said I was a genius. "
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" There were centuries when civilization had no theater. "
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" 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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" 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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" I have no great message to the world. "
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" A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. "
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" I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' "
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" I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. "
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" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "
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" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "
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" One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable. "
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" Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. "
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" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "
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" At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. "
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" 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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