Leslie Charteris Quotes
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.
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If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
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'The democratization of luxury means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
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Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
