Leon Uris Quotes
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
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I was a terrible English student.
