Orson Welles Quotes
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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No one person is an island.
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After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.'
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I don't know anything about science.
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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
