Gene Wilder Quotes
I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
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I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
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I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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I wish we had more diversity.
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We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.
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O, how wretchedIs that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,More pangs and fears than wars and women have;And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,Never to hope again.
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I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold meis love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
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I'm a very reluctant frontman. I've seen reviews where they talk about my strong presence on stage, but it's nothing I do. It's like the person in a long grocery line who stands out because he's so agitated. He'll have presence, too.
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I'm lucky because the most dangerous thing that could happen to me is that someone will say something mean on a computer screen miles away, and so I feel like if that's all that I'm facing, then why would I not use my platform to talk about things?
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If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.
