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The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.


Gideon Welles

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ORSON WELLES In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word i...
ORSON WELLES Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand u...
ORSON WELLES One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too h...
ORSON WELLES If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe ver...
ORSON WELLES I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLES Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a...
ORSON WELLES As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a lim...
ORSON WELLES The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
ORSON WELLES Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations
ORSON WELLES I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it...
ORSON WELLES At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
ORSON WELLES When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends
ORSON WELLES The title is so good, you don't have to make the movie; just release the title.
ORSON WELLES The basic and essential human is the woman
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