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When I met Jo Wilder, I fell crazy in love and never thought about homosexuality. And I thought, 'Well, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. This is life.'
Joel Grey / Actor
Homosexuality
Wilder
Life Love Crazy
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I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Mary Pope Osborne / Author
Garden
Laura
Prairie
Princess
Wilder
Burnett
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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
Maya Lin / Designer
Adolescence
Comfortable
Dinner
Parent
Pregnancy
Want
Wilder
Ate
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I do think Wilder can be a household name in America. He is a good fighter, and he has knockout power and has knockout potential, which is what you need as a heavyweight.
Paulie Malignaggi /
Wilder
Heavyweight
Household Name
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
Imran Khan / Pakistani Politician
Authority
Country
Moving
Oppressed
Pakistan
People
Wilder
Easily
Feudal
Suppressed
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When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?
Sonia Levitin /
Ambition
Decided
Eleven
Laura
Wilder
Years
Die
Go
Writer
Only
Back
Cast
Could
Old
How
Word
Letter
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'The Producers' is my favorite movie, and my favorite performances of all time are Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and I feel like I strive to be a combination of those two guys.
Brett Gelman / Actor
Combination
Strive
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Favorite Movie
Gene
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I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.
Elayne Boosler / Comedian
Cursed
Get Away
Opinionated
People
Thinking
Threatened
Wilder
Deliver
Seemed
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I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now... being a bit wilder maybe!
Liam Payne / Songwriter
Changed
Different
Little Bit
Mind
Wilder
Little
Now
Bit
Frame
Maybe
Moment
Settled
Whether
Worse
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Nothing has been given to Deontay Wilder. So with that being said, nothing is going to be taken from me. So I must stay focused. I must. I must. It is an absolute must to stay focused.
Deontay Wilder / Boxer
Stay Focused
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Absolute
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I had been a fan of Gene Wilder's for many years, but the first time I saw him in person, my heart fluttered - I was hooked. It felt like my life went from black and white to Technicolor.
Gilda Radner / Comedian
Black
Black And White
Felt
First Time
Hooked
White
Wilder
Life Time Heart
Fan
Gene
Saw
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I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
Jason Reitman / Film Director
Careers
Crush
Great Ones
Perfect
Wilder
Bad One
Billy
Crushes
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I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.
Sarah Chalke / Actress
Proportion
Wilder
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John Cleese was my personal favorite because he played my husband for a whole season - and Minnie Driver. We almost had our own, like, show all living in a house together. And Gene Wilder was just so dear.
Megan Mullally / Actress
Dear
Husband
Wilder
Driver
Gene
John
Season
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Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose sight of the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real person who was complicated and intense.
Caroline Fraser /
Intense
Laura
Real Person
Sight
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Tv Show
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I watched Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder 1 in America. I was in Miami at the time. We went out to watch it and it was a great fight. I thought Tyson Fury won the fight. I thought he was very unlucky not to get the decision.
Luke Campbell /
Fury
Miami
Tyson
Unlucky
Wilder
Time Great Fight
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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
David Nicholls / Novelist
Romantic
Cynical
Moving
Touching
Wilder
Love Time Romantic
Love Time Always
Billy
Films
Same Time
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If you look at Joshua's six opponents before he fought for the world title, Wilder's six opponents before the world title, Tyson's six opponents. The guys I fought and the guys they fought, it's the difference between night and day.
Dillian Whyte /
Opponents
Tyson
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Title
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Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.
Steve Martin / Actor
Differences
Oscars
People
Thinking
Wilder
Grammys
More People
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Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
Lana Wachowski /
Film Noir
Genre
Heavy
Influence
Noir
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Billy
Contained
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He's certainly got the power, Fury. He hurt Wilder in the first fight. But he's never really been that guy to go for the big knockouts. He showboats, he's got good movement, he's quick - but he's not the type to go and bang someone out.
Luke Campbell /
Fury
Wilder
Bang
Quick
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I feel ready to fight all of them now, the very best, including Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte, but I know my dad, my trainer Martin Bowers, and my promoter Frank Warren don't want to rush me through the ranks.
Daniel Dubois /
Frank
Fury
Tyson
Wilder
Promoter
Ranks
Rush
Trainer
Warren
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A movie like 'The Apartment' is beautifully directed, but you can't put your finger on why it's such a good movie. It just is, because of all these things that Billy Wilder is subtly doing. That level of filmmaking is something I aspire to.
John Hamburg /
Movie
Aspire
Filmmaking
Good Movie
Wilder
Why
Good Your Doing
Beautifully
Billy
Directed
Finger
Put
Subtly
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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
Bonnie Hunt / Actress
Frank
Wilder
Good Always Me
Billy
Good Look Me
Supporting
Three-Dimensional
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I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of.
Stephen Merchant / Writer
Pie
Wilder
Woody
Enough People Know
Allen
Billy
Compete
Grand
People Enough Know
Woody Allen
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For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.
Charles Best /
Birthday
Prairie
Wilder
Devoured
Protagonist
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Some of those guys show a lot of promise, especially Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder. Even the kid Joseph Parker, who Joshua is about to fight, shows a lot of promise. I'm looking forward to some really exciting fights in the heavyweight division to come.
Roy Jones Jr. / Professional Boxer
Division
Looking Forward
Promise
Wilder
Heavyweight
Joseph
Parker
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.
Isabel Gillies / Film Actress
Beloved
Generations
Hunting
Laura
Preparing
Treasure
Wilder
Ate
Foods
Harvesting
Peek
Planting
Provides
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I was a quicksilver girl who saw every leaf on every tree. For me, there was no middle ground between sinking and flying, and once I was into my early adult years, my roller coaster got wilder and faster: I seemed to rise and fall with the same reckless velocity.
Margaret Trudeau / Author
Faster
Flying
Middle Ground
Reckless
Roller Coaster
Sinking
Tree
Velocity
Wilder
Coaster
Leaf
Roller
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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 / Novelist
Book
Children
Fantasy
Favourite
Green
Laura
Runaway
Wilder
Writing
Adored
Anne
Pioneer
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I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.
Andrea Bocelli / Tenor
Accidents
Boat
Excitement
Horse
Thank God
Wilder
Love God Thank God
Fast
Luckily
Presented
Ride
Ride Horses
Ski
Thank
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When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Girl
Kids
Agree
Boys
Civilized
Sweet
Wilder
Adolescent
Spot
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I think a handful of the roles that I've gotten to play are characters whom I've lived that are like younger versions of me but who are maybe more naive and a little bit wilder than when I was. And I've gotten to play 16 and 17 when I was a little bit older, so I got to pull from experience.
Sarah Bolger /
Handful
Versions
Wilder
Experience Me More
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First off, I love Woody Allen. His early movies, like 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' are incredible. I also love anything by Billy Wilder, Ron Howard and John Hughes. I really grew up on the Hughes films, which are the ones I go back and watch all the time, just to see how they were put together.
Tim Story /
Wilder
Woody
Love Time Movies
Allen
Billy
Sisters
Hannah
Hughes
Ron
Woody Allen
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I know he's not an MMA fighter, but can we just talk about how great Deontay Wilder is? He's must-see TV. Not since Mike Tyson has boxing had an American heavyweight who could hit like him... and talk like him, too. I love his interviews, his demeanor, his fighting style... the whole package.
Ariel Helwani /
Boxing
Demeanor
Mike
Mma
Tyson
Wilder
Heavyweight
Mike Tyson
Package
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When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
Andre Benjamin / Rapper
Character
Clothes
Mirrors
Sophisticated
Wilder
Producing
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The first movie that I ever said was my favorite movie - and I've said for the longest - is 'The Producers,' Mel Brooks' original 'Producers.' The two lead performances from Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder are both unstoppable performances and then supported by amazing supporting characters throughout.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Zero
Brooks
Producers
Unstoppable
Wilder
Original
Favorite Movie
Gene
Performance
Longest
Mel Brooks
Supporting
Throughout
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If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.
Richard P. Feynman / Physicist
Regions
Turns
Unification
Wilder
Time Experience Together
Expand
Pulled
Simpler
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When I came to Hollywood, I would take the opportunity to get to know George Stevens or Willy Wyler or Billy Wilder or Freddie Zinnemann. David Lean I got to know, of course, in London. And David Selznick and Darryl Zanuck, not to mention Jack Warner, and Sam Goldwyn was actually very, very nice to me.
Warren Beatty / Actor
Wilder
David
Billy
Jack
Lean
Mention
Sam
Warner
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Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.
Sam Kean / Writer
American Government
Bigger
Existence
Explosions
Plutonium
Produce
Reactions
Secret
Wilder
Chain
Created
Fearing
Unlike
In Fact
Lab
Realized
Scientists
Soon
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