Elmore Leonard Quotes

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

Elmore Leonard

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• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Year

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • See
  • Compassion

• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Interesting

• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Point
  • Hotel

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Character
  • Hero
  • Romantic

• In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Wife
  • Christian
  • Blue

• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Living
  • Jews
  • Minority

• Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Father
  • Child
  • Parenting

• I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Reflection
  • Self

• I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Saintly

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• All anything takes, really, is confidence.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Confidence
  • Really
  • Anything

• In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • House
  • Laws
  • Obey

• I'm a really big animal lover.

  

  Lea Michele
  • Animal

• What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

  

  William Moseley
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Witch

• When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we've got to fight for each other, not against and not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course. As an exciting year of unpredictable change begins, we, too, have our work cut out for us. And we're all in this together. Just like our musk ox, they circle up to protect their future when they are challenged. We've got to do the same.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Mother

• One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Important
  • Success
  • Habit

• Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.

  

  George Clooney
  • Mean
  • Hurt
  • Moral

• I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

  

  Elmore Leonard