Start thinking. I'll make it easy.

First name.




Second name.



But you have to think like this guy.

 

Sylvie Guillem, French ballet dancer



Sill
V
Guillem/Guillaume being the French equivalent of William

 

Very witty misanthrope... long gone





Please also post your favourite quotation, of which there are many, attributed to this person...

 

It ain't what they call you, its what you answer to.

W C Fields



have fun
kfw

 

Double star for @time flies

 

Just for fun, here’s my favourite W C Fields one-liner:

“Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake”

 

My personal favourite

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her"

 

New Year’s resolution. Tougher puzzles, (I hope!) Clue. The answer is NOT the female in the clue.

 

Another!

 

The first thing that springs to mind is Marie Curie

...but she's no resolution.

...drawing board

 

I reread your post the resolution is tougher puzzles:
so:

 

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Lamb Pastillas?

 

Light years away from the answer.

 

?

 

Heard it on the radio yesterday that Beethoven isn’t just considered to be the greatest ever composer, but also the greatest person to have ever lived.

I’ve always thought statements like this very strange, as I don’t know what template one would use to declare a particular human being as ‘the greatest’

Anyway, that’s a clue to the following rebus:

 

Stumped... I think it might lead to the name of a distillery, but can’t work out the first two images

 

Very good. The Enigma himself


Ed
Wood
Elle
Gar

 

Excellent work, @Gav1967

 

Nothing to do with a distillery. The clues lead to the subject of a series of movies from ~ 50 years or more ago.