Orson Welles Quotes

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

Orson Welles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985

Topics

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A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Jim Lehrer

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We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more than a genetic imperative.

Andrew Solomon

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

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I want my shows to be very classic and timeless.

Matthew Morrison

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Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

Steve Coogan

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There is always disappointment, heartache. You are losing almost every tournament. You need to just accept it and be positive because you are going to lose and fail. We're not all Nadal or Djokovic, who can win most tournaments.

Stan Wawrinka

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Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Ruth Hubbard

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Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.

Mary Tyler Moore

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A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

Javier Camara

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When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

Diana Krall

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I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

Diane Sawyer

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Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

Deeyah Khan

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