Elvin Bishop Quotes
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.
