Orson Welles Quotes
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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There would be no debate about who was the best footballer the world had ever seen - me or Pele. Everyone would say me.
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I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
