Leslie Fiedler Quotes
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster homosexuality whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.
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Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
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I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
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The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know it?' That's the question answered by all these books about how Proust was actually a neuroscientist or how Proust can teach you emotional intelligence.
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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
