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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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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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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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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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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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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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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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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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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I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
