Orson Welles Quotes
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
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The actresses I've known support each other very much. If you have a level of confidence in what you're doing, then you don't feel threatened. We all have different things to offer.
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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American music culture is black culture.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
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A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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I believe holding hands keeps you close and makes you feel close. We hold hands everywhere we go.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
