LeRoy Neiman Quotes
I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.
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Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
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It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.
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I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
