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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Samuel Wilder
Witty
Classic
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Gogh
Music
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Life
Idol
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Sarcastic

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Well, nobody's perfect.
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
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