Billy Wilder Quotes
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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I auditioned 5-6 times for 'Dangal.' I was just waiting for the final call, as there were about 15-16 girls who auditioned for the role.
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
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When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.
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It was no more nor less than true. You do things by doing things, not by not doing them. No more crazy upsidedownness, he resolved. Good was better than bad. Good environments are better than bad environments.
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I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,-scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
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Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.
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You gotta know how to get to people's heart
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As fiction writers, we are entertainers.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
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We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
