Elmore Leonard Quotes
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.
Quotes to Explore
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Most men are fragile.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
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When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
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The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.
