Elmore Leonard Quotes
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
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There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Maybe he is the Mark Twain of the late twentieth century. Time will sort the bastard out and I leave it to others more qualified than me to assess and appraise his monumental literary legacy.
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Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.
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You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.
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It's not that I don't want to do commercial films, but if my part is just to look pretty, I'm not up for it. I'd do a role that expresses something. It's not that I don't want to look good, but give me a part where I have scope to perform.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
