Elmore Leonard Quotes
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
Quotes to Explore
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.
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The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.
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Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
