Elmore Leonard Quotes
I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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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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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the whole Western world, you know? You got a pretty big responsibility.
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You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
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[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.
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I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.
