Elmore Leonard Quotes
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
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I've never been a partier.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right
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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
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'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.
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I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
