Leon Uris Quotes
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I don't do meetings.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.
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I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.
