Jane Leavy Quotes

Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots Shor's - his preferred drink was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the players' gate, hoping to touch him.

Jane Leavy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1951

Topics

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The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Jocko Willink

LeaderBestPeopleTeamGrowKnow

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

Jo Brand

PeopleThinkComedyYouAppearance

The big mistake people make is eating their grilled beef hot. I prefer room temperature or cool. When the meat rests and starts to get cool, all of that fat goes back into the muscles and becomes much more tender.

Andrew Zimmern

MistakePeopleCoolEatingFatBack

I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.

Andie MacDowell

CommitmentWillLandWildlifeMade

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

Angie Dickinson

WomenTimePoliceWomanStrongWay

I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'

Anjelah Johnson

EducationFreeWantClassBecomeUp

Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.

Stanley A. McChrystal

BusinessHistoryWorldEvolution

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard

BetterHonestTo Be HonestThan

'Piper's Pit' was totally unscripted - everything just happened - thus, innovation was a challenging must to accomplish.

Roddy Piper

InnovationAccomplishEverythingJust

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

Mary Hunter Austin

GrowthTreeDesertBetterUnhappy

People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like 'Gorilla Mindset' and my documentary on free speech, 'Silenced.'

Mike Cernovich

WorkHatePeopleMeFreeMindset

I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.

Molly Ringwald

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