Orson Welles Quotes
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
