Orson Welles Quotes
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
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The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.
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So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
