Elmore Leonard Quotes
The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.
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This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!
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If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.
