Orson Welles Quotes
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.
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Art will not only continue but will realise itself more and more. By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
