Elmore Leonard Quotes
I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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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.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
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I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.
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I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?
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I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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I saw what religion did to people when I grew up, and I certainly didn't want any part of it. That turned me off it.
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I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever.
