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Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.
Woody Allen
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Woody Allen
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
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It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?
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I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.
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A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
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Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we still would be faced with an extremely cruel and hostile universe and existence and so I'm a great pessimist and I feel that it's impossible really to be happy, and that the best you can hope for is to be distracted.
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I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.
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I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
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If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.
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Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.
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There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.
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I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
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The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.
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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.
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In the event of war, I'm a hostage.
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Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
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