Orson Welles Quotes
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I love red or deep purple lips for events.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
