Orson Welles Quotes
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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Those who go along get along.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
