Billy Wilder Quotes
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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No fruit. No veggie.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
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You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.
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People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.
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The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
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The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
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Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.
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Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, 'I think, therefore Descartes is.' One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
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Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.
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Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
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I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.
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There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
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Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.
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I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.
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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
