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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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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.
