Leon Uris Quotes
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices.
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My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.
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In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
