Gene Wilder Quotes
We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to make sure you know it's a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he's talking to knows he's lying.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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They hate whom they fear.
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My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
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Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.
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Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.
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I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to make sure you know it's a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he's talking to knows he's lying.
