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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One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.
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The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
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We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.
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I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.
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This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.
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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.
