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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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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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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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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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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'Do you promise you won't hurt me?' asked Arthur. 'You will be safe from all harm for the space of a quarter hour, as measured by this clock,' replied the Old One. 'You are mortal enough that I would not slay you like a wandering cockroach, or a Denizen of the House.' 'Thanks,' said Arthur. 'I think.'
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But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.
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So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don't get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity.
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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.
