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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.


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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.



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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.



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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.



Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.



Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.



My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.



The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.



If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.



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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.



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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.



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I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.



The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.



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I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were

I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were




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