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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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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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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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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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 think people like watching edgy things.
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I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
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The young woman had turned toward him and thrust her pink gloves up in the air in a gesture that, from a man, meant 'Touchdown!' and, from a woman, 'I will hug you now!'
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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.
