Orson Welles Quotes
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
