Leslie Charteris Quotes
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
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I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
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My favorite drink is sake.
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What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.
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Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers.
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Security is extremely tight. From the governor's office, we're concerned for his safety and keeping him in our prayers.
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But her body, seated a few inches from mine on the wooden bench, had manifested no unease. Not even her voice, which had been sure and clear: no. Not a single sign that might lead me to think that she was lying. Thus I had no doubt. She was lying.
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When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.
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I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.
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Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
