Leslie Cockburn Quotes

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.

Leslie Cockburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 2, 1952

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You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

Mercedes Ruehl

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Walter Cronkite was the last newsman everyone trusted in the same way that the Beatles were the last music everyone loved and Marilyn was the last star everyone concurred was worthy of the word.

Steve Erickson

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It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Sonia Johnson

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If young children boo me, that makes my day.

Tom Felton

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If you know a good player who is tempted by pool hustling, introduce him at once to a career guidance counselor, a psychotherapist, or a surgeon who does lobotomies.

Robert Byrne

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The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that - from '80 to '85.

Robert C. Solomon

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Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

Robert Vaughn

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I've stood up in front of America for 25 years, and I wish I could bring everybody into my home that I have touched in my career. That would be an amazing thing.

Joy Mangano

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Carole King is one of my all-time favorite songwriters.

Judith Hill

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I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

David Wenham

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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.

Bonnie Hunt

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I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

Arne Glimcher

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