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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• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
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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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• My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.

  

  Ellen Pompeo
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• The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

  

  Esther Duflo
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• Breakfast is Special K cereal. If I'm having a big meal, it's lunch instead of dinner. Some kind of wrap, like chicken for protein. For dinner, mainly vegetables. I mix it up if I go out to eat.

  

  Jillian Rose Reed
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• I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.

  

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• You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

  

  Mitch Albom
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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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