George Elliston Quotes
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	I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.   
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	I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.   
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	I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.   
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	I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.   
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	The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.   
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	If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.   
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	One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.   
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	Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.   
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	I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.   
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	Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.   
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	I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.   
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	I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'   
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	To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.   
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	I have a good relationship with Lifetime.   
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	I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.   
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	I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.   
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	The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.   
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	In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.   
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	The reward of a thing well done is having done it.   
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	I think that Broken Lizard movies typically have to be able to star five guys, so it's like, policemen, spacemen, a basketball team.   
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	God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.   
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	Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.   
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	I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.   
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	How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					