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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I was 19 when I discovered Pilates, and I'm still doing it. It's the workout my body really responds to. It's all about alignment, elongating your spine, and strengthening your core. It makes me feel my strongest.
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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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It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
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I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
