Elaine Stritch Quotes
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.
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But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
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I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
