Gene Wilder Quotes
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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And my father and mother strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence, I was intended for some great purpose, which they had always thought from certain marks on my head and breast.
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C'est une imprudence assez commune aux roisD'écouter trop d'avis et se tromper au choix.
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.
