Leslie Charteris Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I would love to be a role model.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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There’s already an evolution taking place inside of Cuba, a generational change. Many suggested that I come here and ask the people of Cuba to tear something down - but I’m appealing to the young people of Cuba who will lift something up, build something new.
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Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
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Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.
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The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.
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Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.
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If there's an inkling of abuse, I have to move on. Even jealousy - seems cute it first, but if they're getting in my head, it's not right for me. It's okay to be alone. It's okay to be single. The right thing will come along.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
