Elmore Leonard Quotes
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.
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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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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
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I've never been punched in the face, so I didn't know it would hurt so much!
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Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
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It takes a lot of hard work to be successful in the NFL.
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I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.
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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.
