Elliott Gould Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.
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Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful.
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The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.
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Memories of traumatic experiences may not be primarily retrieved as narratives. Our own and others’ research has suggested that PTSD traumatized people’s difficulties with putting memories into words are reflected in actual changes in brain activity.
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My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.
