Leslie Fiedler Quotes

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

Leslie Fiedler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

Jessie Matthews

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Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

Jessica Hahn

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I love making movies.

John Carpenter

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The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.

Jennifer Holliday

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The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

Alton Brown

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Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

Stephen Colbert

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Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

Sue Monk Kidd

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There's always a way - if you're committed.

Tony Robbins

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Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

Robbie Robertson

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It is one of the sternest judgments confronting a human being after death that insofar as he is himself evil, he can see only what resembles himself because he can reproduce in his own being only the physiognomy of other evil people.

Rudolf Steiner

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I think our movie, 'Now You See Me,' is an emotional movie rooted in smart and wits and fully amazing actors working perfectly together. It's like a supergroup of musicians.

Louis Leterrier

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The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

William Jackson

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