William Wyler Quotes
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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Everybody thinks scientists are cold and rational. The truth is that nothing could be more passionate than the search for scientific discoveries that break down barriers and change paradigms of thinking. Working with these artists was such an amazing experience that opened us up in ways we could never guess. We found that we had so much in common.
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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
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I like a girl who laughs a lot. That's my main thing.
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I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
