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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I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.
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I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
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It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?
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I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
