David Leavitt Quotes
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.
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The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
