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Leon Uris Quotes

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

Leon Uris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003

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Hope Generation Reach You Try Write

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

John Hawkes

Truth School Think Learn Moments

I get too excited about football and rugby.

Matthew Lewis

Football Rugby Excited Get About

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

Myself People Ideas Place Person

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

John Zimmerman

Health Aging Eye Believe Care Right

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

Shiv Khera

You Price Pay Avoid Horrendous

I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.

Ruth Rendell

Life World Think My Life Lost Her

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Marvin Olasky

Good Humility More Prudence Harm

We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

Jay Carney

Positive Growth Hope History Time

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

Diane Lane

Family Experience You Done Infinite

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

Arnold Palmer

Work Myself Wife Me Flying Reading

Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.

August Wilson

Time Writing Black Student Far Away

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

Allen Iverson

Change Man Perfect Back Go Know