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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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 lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.
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I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.
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My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.
