Leon Max Quotes
There's something to be said for a disregard of fashion, but it has to be a carefully curated disregard. It works best, I think, on someone under 18. After the age of, say, 40, you can end up looking like a bag lady.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.
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There's something to be said for a disregard of fashion, but it has to be a carefully curated disregard. It works best, I think, on someone under 18. After the age of, say, 40, you can end up looking like a bag lady.
