Leslie Charteris Quotes

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

Leslie Charteris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 12, 1907 - April 15, 1993

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I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

Jeremy Irvine

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I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

Andy Hertzfeld

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Mary Lasker was an entrepreneur; she was a socialite. She was kind of a legendary networker. She became interested in saying, 'Well, you know, if these diseases don't have political support we'll never conquer them.' And she made, really, cancer her special cause.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.

Mary Steenburgen

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People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Judi Dench

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I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.

Jason Aldean

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You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

Craig Brown

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I have not ever been able to decide how would my girls have fared if they came up in a different time?

Susan Straight

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I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

Peter Zumthor

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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Seneca

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I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

Tyra Banks

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I have nothing against cosmetic procedures, but I don't want my face lasered. Also, people are naive about how much you can do with make-up and lighting, and I've learned from the best.

Marie Helvin

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