Elliott Gould Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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Good material is good material.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.
