Eli Wallach Quotes
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
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No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
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I have a personal trainer. But I tried boxing; I tried ballet. I tried everything to see what works best for my body.
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The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics... This is the difference between India and Pakistan.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.
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Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
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Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.
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Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
