Terry Gross Quotes
When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
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The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
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I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
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Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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Life is a very emotional experience.
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Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.
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When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.
