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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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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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.
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Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive!
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Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
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The central idea of the philosophy of behaviorism, that behavior and the mind have an entirely materialist basis subject to experimental analysis, is fundamentally sound.
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I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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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.
