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've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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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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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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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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Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
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I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.
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While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.
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I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
