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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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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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
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Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.
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We need to show how we really are and how we really are is that I'm the Dad, that's the Mom, these are the kids. This is how you respect us. It's "Yes Sir", "No Sir", "Yes Mam" and "No Mam". We don't see a lot of that on TV, so I just want to give an example and show examples on how a family should be versus how families are portrayed on TV.
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My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.
