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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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