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When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York.

Woody Allen

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Woody Allen
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
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Character Actor
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Allan Stewart Konigsberg
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Heywood Allen
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I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.
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I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.
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I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.
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For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.
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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
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You make a film and always hope you're going make Citizen Kane or The Bicycle Thief. You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.
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I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.
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When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.
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I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.
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I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.
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Eternity is really long, especially near the end.
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There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
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I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.
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I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.
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I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.
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