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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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George Orson Welles
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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