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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I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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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.
