Leon Uris Quotes
All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Good design should be honest.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.
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Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
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All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
