Leslie Charteris Quotes
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.
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That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
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If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.
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For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
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If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones.
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It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.
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Crying does not equal good acting.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
