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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]
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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
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