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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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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ISIS represents the worst threat to freedom since Communism!
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
