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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You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
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Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.
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There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes.
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Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So yeah, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
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I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.
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How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
