Eli Wallach Quotes
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
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When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.
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The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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quoting her producer 'The network is concerned. They're concerned about the fullness of your face. They think you're really overweight and you're going to have to do something about it.' I didn't know what to say to that. I always thought I was decent looking; I had no idea that I was a giant face taking over America! HERE COMES THE FACE!!
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'Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards'.
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I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born.
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The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules
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I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.
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When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
