Mark Leyner Quotes
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.
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I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.
