Elmore Leonard Quotes

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.

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• I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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  • World
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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
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  • Small
  • Author

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
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• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
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• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
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  • Youngest

• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
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• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
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  • For Him

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
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• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
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• They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.

  

  Ma Jun
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• I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

  

  Calista Flockhart
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• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
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  • Simple
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• The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Daily

• The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Today

• I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

  

  Joel C. Rosenberg
  • Moral

• Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • People
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  • Alone

• My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

  Biz Stone
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  • Support
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• Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.

  

  Elmore Leonard
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