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 think a superhero would be awesome to play.
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I think I have become a very strong person. If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to tackle anything around the world because you’re able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I’m concerned.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
