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 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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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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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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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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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth
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I'm not the youngest person at the table anymore. I'm not the young precocious one. I feel like I'm engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I'm treated with respect, as an equal.
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Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
