Elliott Gould Quotes
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
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It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.
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Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.
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The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
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Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
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You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
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At my age, I'm not trying to score cool points. I'm just excited when I can speak to younger members of our audience in the WWE. I just get to be a superhero to kids, but I'm not trying to be on the cutting edge of style or anything like that. Once you reach that point of deprivation, you don't mind it.
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All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.
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There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
