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I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#again #always #art #because #chance

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#could #ever #government #granted #had

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#anthony hopkins #any #called #comedians #did

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#box #calf #canvas #cow #fastened

I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever. ↗

— Shaun White

#ever #i #i love #just #love

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#do your best #every #good #hard #job

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#conscious #hearts #moments #only #our

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#another #cases #childhood #convinced #essential

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#behold #dramatists #employ #fitted #learned

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. ↗

— Jason Wiles

#assume #book #character #city #clown