Gene Wilder Quotes
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
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My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.
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It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
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Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
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I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.
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War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
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When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.
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I'm an actor, not a clown.
