Orson Welles Quotes
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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Life is a school of probability.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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There's something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that's done by you. There's also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
