Orson Welles Quotes
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
Quotes to Explore
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
