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"I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some very good writers, but the sentences were so long that I've forgotten what the point was."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they're waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you're in trouble. Just do what you love. That's all I want to do."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another 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."
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"Sidney Poitier was directing a film called 'Hanky Panky.' And he said, 'Do you want to come with me to New York to see Gilda Radner in 'Lunch Hour' on Broadway? I said, 'I don't need to see her, I love her. I've wanted to write something for her for a long time. So it's OK by me.'"
Quote by -Gene Wilder
"Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power."
Quote by -George Washington
"I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is, and can continue to be a leader."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on, and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"People have now got the ability to speak to each other across continents: to join with each other in communities that are not based simply on territory, streets, but networks; and you've got the possibility of people building alliances right across the world."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?"
Quote by -Harper Lee
"There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?"
Quote by -Harper Lee
"She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious."
Quote by -Harper Lee
"I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly."
Quote by -Harper Lee