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.Elmore Leonard
Quotes to Explore
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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.
R. Kelly -
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.
Maisie Williams -
I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
Candace Parker -
Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
Natascha McElhone -
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.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D. H. Lawrence
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
Mahesh Babu -
I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
Taylor Momsen -
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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.
Xavier Becerra -
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.
Tabitha Soren
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The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.
Samuel Alito -
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
E. B. White -
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.
Ralph Steadman -
When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.
Amitabh Bachchan -
It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.
Amber Benson -
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.
Albert Einstein
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I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!
Brittany Snow -
I am just an artist.
Andres Serrano -
So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out.
Dudley North -
Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.
Gautama Buddha -
It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.
J Harlen Bretz -
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
Elmore Leonard