Orson Welles Quotes
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I don't really go out at all.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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America is huge.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
