Leon Uris Quotes
There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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You can talk all you want about consensual reality, Jilly, but that doesn’t change the fact that some things are real and some things aren’t. There’s a line drawn between the two that separates reality from fantasy.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.
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There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
