Orson Welles

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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The Third Man

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The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.

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You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

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Welles, Orson. Interview to celebrate his 70th birthday. The Times, 6 May 1985.

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