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.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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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.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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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.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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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.
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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.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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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.
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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.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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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.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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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.
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I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.
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I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.
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I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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Sometimes I'll meet somebody, and they've looked me up online or whatever, and they've never heard me talk or met me. I think they expect me to be a lot darker than I am and maybe less - not less friendly - but I guess I'm drawn to that dark emotional music. Maybe they think I'm a little more brooding.
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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.
