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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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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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
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Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.
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Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Truth is a big concept.
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.
