Elmore Leonard Quotes
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
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If the artist isn't having a great day or finds it all boring, my role becomes that of a coach. Getting the very best out of the artist. Helping them perform at their very best when it's game time. One way to get them there is to bring them out of their comfort zones.
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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.
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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.
