Orson Welles Quotes
But you can't emphasize 'beef', that's like his wanting me to emphasize 'in' before 'July'! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
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My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.
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My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
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If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.
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College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.
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Listening is the essence of anything.
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Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.
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The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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But you can't emphasize 'beef', that's like his wanting me to emphasize 'in' before 'July'! Come on, fellows, you're losing your heads! I wouldn't direct any living actor like this in Shakespeare! The way you do this, it's impossible!
