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Leo Rosten Quotes

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Leo Rosten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997

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Need Educated Driven Share Because

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Jeremiah Wright

Government People Color Genocide HIV

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

Melissa Rosenberg

Funny Love Character Writing She

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

MC Hammer

People Think Find Hammer Out Geek

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Music Think Television Nothing Just

I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.

Amy Hoggart

Eyes People Me Small Sorry Think

What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?

Trent Franks

Path Justice Fairness What If Here

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Heart Sea Place Special Classic

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

Joseph C. Wilson

Good Black And White Black White

One of my favourites is 'American Beauty.' Spacey is so good in that.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Good Beauty American Favourites

It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.

Craig Brown

Football Old Friends Lonely Friends

Success can be obviously a two way street.

Chris Noth

Success Street Way Two Obviously

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

Bob Edwards

You Looks Nobody Nobody Cares Tie