Billy Wilder Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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When I'm not feeling good about how I look, I figure if I just buy the right piece of clothing, I'll feel all right.
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Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.
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Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
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France was given up to fire and bloodshed, she experienced famine, she experienced the worst of things, she was nearly chopped up in pieces forever because of the decision... to exclude, to brand one party as guilty and annihilate them.
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The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
