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 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 -
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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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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When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.
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It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.
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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
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What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.
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I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
Garry Kasparov -
When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.
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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.
