Elmore Leonard Quotes
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.Elmore Leonard
Quotes to Explore
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell Berry -
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A. J. P. Taylor -
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz -
I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
Naima Adedapo -
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
Wallace Shawn -
Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
Patricia Velasquez
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
Vaclav Klaus -
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Walter Gropius -
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
Patricia Highsmith -
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
Aaron Johnson -
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler -
Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm Forbes -
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
R. Kelly -
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
Maeve Binchy -
The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
Kajol -
You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.
Walter Martin
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I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
Laura Prepon -
You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong.
Bobby Farrelly Boney M. -
The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
Kapil Sibal -
'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.
Charlie Pierce -
To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
Anne Parillaud -
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
Elmore Leonard