Gene Wilder Quotes
I'm not from Hollywood, and I'm also not one of the people who wants to do a tell-all, and I hate tell-alls. I didn't want to tell all.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.
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Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
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More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
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Through the years, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have shared how much they relate to my 'Sordid Lives' family, and how many gay men and women used it to come out to their conservative families through the humor of the film.
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The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
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I'm not from Hollywood, and I'm also not one of the people who wants to do a tell-all, and I hate tell-alls. I didn't want to tell all.
