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Woody Allen
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
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Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison. — If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists
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The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.
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I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.
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No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
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I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
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The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.
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Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.
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There's something about my films they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.
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Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.
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I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I've been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I've had.
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It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.
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I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs.
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Ninety percent of life is just showing up.
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People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you.
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Today I saw a red and yellow sunset and thought, how insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that yesterday too, and it rained.
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You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.
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I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.
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I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women have told me over the years that it is very, very important to them.
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Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
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