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Leslie Fiedler Quotes

It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1917 - January 29, 2003

Topics

End Look Wrong New Page Say

It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

Home Time People Me Singing Country

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

Johannes Kepler

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

Work Book Acting Act Like Agent

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.

Girl Doctor You High Heels High

From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal. It was a world I was simply infatuated with. So, as soon as I could, I moved out to L.A. chasing after my dream.

Passion World Early Dream Goal Out

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

Michel Houellebecq

Stupid America Country Intellectual

In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'

Work Thankful Humor Grateful Simple

I just feel like there's a better mind-to-pen connection for me than a mind-to-keyboard connection.

Me Better Feel Connection Just Like

That's what helped me be successful is staying as calm as possible.

Me Calm Possible Successful Staying

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

Family Music Time Culture Musicians

One Direction are super cool.

Dionne Bromfield

Cool Direction Super

I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's scripts. As a writer, my only guiding principle has been to write about things that scare me, write about things that make me feel vulnerable, write about things that will expose my deepest fears, so that's how I write.

Derek Cianfrance

Me Feel Will Never Write Deepest

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