John Leonard Quotes
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
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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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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
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When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree:Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, remember,And if thou wilt, forget.
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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
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What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.
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We have been born into this land, charged with the historic mission of regenerating the nation.
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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
