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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.

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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You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.
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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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Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
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Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job. Don't blow it.
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I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.
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Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
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I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
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[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!
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Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.
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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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Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.
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Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
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I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.
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I don't fear death. - I just don't want to be around when it happens.
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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 don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
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We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices.
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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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Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.
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