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I started at the top and worked my way down.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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Kenosha
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George Orson Welles
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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.
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In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as looking like an unmade bed. He was right!
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