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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Billy Wilder

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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
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Samuel Wilder
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