Eli Wallach Quotes
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
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You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.
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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
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It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully.
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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The word 'album' makes you nervous, especially 'debut album.'
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
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I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
