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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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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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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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
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I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
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There's a green room at the Oscars. It's really small, very warm, and it's really fun because you get to see everyone just lounging on couches. It's right before you go out to present, so it's everyone in there. And then they have this crudite section, and cheeses and crackers.
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Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
