F. Thomson Leighton Quotes
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest.
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I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.
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Know, dear little one! our FatherWill no gentle deed disdain:Love on the cold earth beginningLives divine in Heaven again,While the angel hearts that beat thereStill all tender thoughts retain.
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Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
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The power to investigate is a great public trust.
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I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.
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I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
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You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
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I wouldn't call what I do 'dance.'
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I'm somebody who doesn't work with a stylist. I'll be honest with you, I'm a mom and it's just not something I want to put money toward because it's expensive to have somebody who helps dress you and I feel like I have to pay for preschool and so many things... so I don't have a stylist.
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I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.
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Food stamps are an investment in our future.
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My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
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There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
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We offered it, but they rejected it, ... They have no use for it.
