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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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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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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Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
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We and our fellow men of all countries must realize that we share this wonderful, beautiful, salubrious earth as brothers and that there never will be anywhere else to go.
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
