Elmore Leonard Quotes

If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
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• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
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• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
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• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
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• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
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• I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
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• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
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• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
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• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
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• If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?

  

  Jessica Cutler
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• So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on 'New Girl,' and what my experience on 'Veronica Mars' was like. Everybody was just so great.

  

  Max Greenfield
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• More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of 'The Sopranos,' which is some of the most sophisticated writing I've ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I've ever seen - and it's a TV show.

  

  Adam Scott
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• I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.

  

  Ellen Greene
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• He was exhaled; his great Creator drewHis spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

  

  John Dryden
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• If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.

  

  Elmore Leonard
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