Billy Wilder Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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It feels amazing to be on the MTV Brand New list. I was shocked when I got told - a good shocked. I'm proper happy about it.
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Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.
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I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
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I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.
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I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
