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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I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.
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There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.
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Increased fragmentation of production across international borders - a natural outgrowth of the gains from specialization - meant more trade for any given value of final production, thus adding to the major expansion in gross trade flows in the 1990s and 2000s.
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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.
