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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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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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
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For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.
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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.
