Elvin Bishop Quotes
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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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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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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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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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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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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I don't want to make 'Chandni Bar 2.' I didn't think 'Fashion 2' will happen. If a film ends on a high note... makes the audience think and lingers in the end... that is needed.
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When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
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For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books.
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One of the greatest things my therapist said to me ... and it really blew my mind in the greatest way, he just said, "Look in the mirror less."
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People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.
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Scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.
