Eli Wallach Quotes
Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
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If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
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And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.
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The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
'It’s a nitwit idea.''Yes, sir.''Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.'
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If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
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I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.
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To be one of the first British females to get three gold medals, to join Laura Trott in doing that, is a huge privilege.
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Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
