“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
“If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.”
Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
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