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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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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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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I believe children's blessings are very powerful.
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I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.
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'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.
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My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.
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I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.
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I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
