Leigh Brackett Quotes

Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

Leigh Brackett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 7, 1915 - March 18, 1978

Topics

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Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.

Andy Partridge

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Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

Alphonsus Liguori

BusinessSpeakYouPlansEverything

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

Stevie Jackson

ImaginationYouGoUpGo AwayStuff

I stay very much undercover and behind the scenes - most places I go, people don't know how important I am. But I will admit that my favorite piece of clothing to wear out is an old T-shirt from a Boston tour that does have a Boston logo. But that doesn't change anything.

Tom Scholz

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I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

Roberto Benigni

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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Jonathan Coe

TimeShortTroubleWhyWriteTurn

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Don Marquis

AgeBestFunPersonSaidMiddle

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Douglas Coupland

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DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.

David Ulevitch

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I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

Bob Newhart

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I love R&B because it got me to where I am today, but at the same time, R&B just doesn't sell.

Poo Bear

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If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

Preity Zinta

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