John Leonard Quotes
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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We never made attempts to say we were anybody's role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.
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The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.
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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
