Elmore Leonard Quotes
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey -
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
Victoria Pendleton -
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
Taylor Dayne -
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
Tariq Ali -
Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
J. B. Smoove
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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
Lady Gregory -
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Karen Black -
For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
Kat Edmonson -
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
D. B. Weiss -
Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
Nawal El Saadawi
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I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'
Zac Efron -
A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
Ingmar Bergman -
You're not going to ask me that and if you did I'd pretend that you didn't because everybody and their mother plus their dog and cat and their goldfish asks me that.
Michael Lee Aday -
Then you notice likkle carpet burnMy stomach drop and my guts churnYou shrug and it's the worstWho truly stuck the knife in first?I cheated myself like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no goodI cheated myself, like I knew I wouldI told you I was trouble, yeah you know that I'm no good.
Amy Winehouse -
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
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I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I'm black. No matter that every single room I go to, I'm usually the darkest person there... I kind of resent that mentality. I'm just an individual.
Daniel Kaluuya -
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.
Jean Piaget -
Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.
Brandon Webb -
When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
Adam Driver -
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
Elmore Leonard