Wilder Quotes - Page 4

• The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

  Larry Fessenden

  Film, Lad

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I myself had lived in the San Fernando Valley many years ago, when it was a much wilder place, and we used to go walking in the wild areas. So that early experience had a lot of similarities for me to the places that Double Negative was being done.

  Virginia Dwan

  Negative, Done, Similarity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Friends of yours, eh?" I think one of them's about to faint." Oh, my god. "That's Chloe Dale," I said without turning arouind. "She suffers from high oestrogen levels. I can introduce you if you like." Gideon's smile grew wilder. "Maybe I'll take you up on that some other time. Now, come on. We still have a lot to do today." He took my arm (a loud squel could be heard from the steps and guided me towards the limousine.

  Kerstin Gier

  Thinking, Suffering, Steps

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• Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Light, Mind, Laura

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• My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

  David Milch

  Spiritual, Religious, Sleep

  "The Misfit". Interview with Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2005.

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• Well, I came down to LA initially to join The Groundlings, which is an improv comedy group. I didn't get in, of course, becaue I'm not a part of The Groundlings. I just assumed that I could walk in and take over. So they said: "Hit the road Jack." And I ended up getting an agent instead. They sent me out on a couple of leads and I ended up on a sitcom and Van Wilder thereafter and then pantsless with Sandra Bullock.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Couple, Groups, Agents

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

  Nicholson Baker

  Believe, Names, Self

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

  Lucy Punch

  Mother, Growing Up, Watches

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• I believe in a fight between me & Wilder... I can come out on top

  David Price

  Believe, Fighting, I Can

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• Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.

  David Lynch

  Art, School, Sound

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• I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Mind, Trying, Kind

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.

  Jeff Lowe

  Wall, Rocks, Ice

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• As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Dream, Imagination, Unexpected

  "Civil Society at Ground Zero" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Persons, Routes

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• It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  George Santayana

  Children, Memories, Husband

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

  George Burns

  Play, Ideas, Plot

  George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions are staining the star of David with blood. The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, Mendelssohn and Mahler, Sergei Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon, a war criminal implicated in the murder of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila camps and now involved in killing Palestinians once again.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Stars, War, Government

  Speech to the House of Commons, April 2002.

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• There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Mean, Doubt

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.88, Baker Books

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• When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.

  Nick Offerman

  Country, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

  Jill Soloway

  Way, Surprise

  "Jill Soloway gave a pretty badass speech at the AFI last night" by Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2015.

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