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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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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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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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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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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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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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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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
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I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
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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.
