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		When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elmore Leonard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		In the future, I want to have super-fights. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Our time on Earth is so random. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elmore Leonard