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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.


Laura Ingalls Wilder

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THORNTON WILDER Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, and ...
BILLY WILDER Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDER The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. Th...
THORNTON WILDER Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signature...
THORNTON WILDER We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to ...
THORNTON WILDER I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...
THORNTON WILDER The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to s...
THORNTON WILDER Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
THORNTON WILDER France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the...
THORNTON WILDER Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous lia...
THORNTON WILDER There are some more expensive brands that I like, but they're not as attainable at this stage in lif...
CHERRYN WILDER It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (...
BILLY WILDER I had a lot of great moments with David Haye.
DEONTAY WILDER I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go righ...
DEONTAY WILDER My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suff...
GENE WILDER People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reas...
DEONTAY WILDER He still has some working documents to sort out before we can offer him a contract, but we certainly...
VALERIE WILDER If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
THORNTON WILDER Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly dis...
DOUGLAS WILDER France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper
BILLY WILDER Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black ...
DOUGLAS WILDER She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hand...
JASINDA WILDER Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
THORNTON WILDER When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER There is no auto pilot in U.S.-China relations, but relations have matured to the point where neithe...
DENNIS WILDER My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a...
GENE WILDER The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
THORNTON WILDER