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Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

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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
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Nobody
Perfect

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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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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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.
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I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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