Billy Wilder Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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Let us have peace.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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I got through college.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.
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Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
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'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'
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It's good to be alive.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
