Billy Wilder Quotes
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
Qandeel Baloch
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
Larry Wilmore
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
Gautam Singhania
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
Malcolm Gladwell
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A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
Zach Galifianakis
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
Frances McDormand
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For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.
Ian McDiarmid
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The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
M. Night Shyamalan
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The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.
Taylor Momsen
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A symphonic conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that, regardless of his approach or temperament, the eventual result is the same - the orchestra will hate him.
Oscar Levant
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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
F. H. Bradley
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'The bird that would soar above the plane of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.'
Kate Chopin
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After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.
Bethany Dillon
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My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
Darrell Lance Abbott
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In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol
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All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
Konrad Adenauer
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Not just me, in fact, my entire family is a devout follower of Lord Hanuman. It's an annual affair where we all celebrate Hanuman Jayanti with a big puja at home, and all the relatives join us in the puja.
Ashish Sharma
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder
