Elmore Leonard Quotes
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
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I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married. I don't do the chat rooms anymore, but I have become completely addicted to Ebay.
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Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.
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The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.
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I give a little wave back because it's more mature then giving him the finger.
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I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
