Elmore Leonard Quotes
I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
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There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I'm getting older, and those days are long gone.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
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Inside 'Star Wars' are values that mean something to people. It's aspirational. It's full of hope.
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I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.
