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I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.
Woody Allen
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Woody Allen
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
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All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.
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The only love that lasts is unrequited love.
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When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.
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Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
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A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.
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What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.
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In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
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For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.
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I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.
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As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.
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I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
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And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up.
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That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.
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If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.
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I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.
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A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.
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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
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My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done.
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One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.
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I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light.
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