Elmore Leonard Quotes

I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I try to write, if I catch myself trying to write, I'll fall right on my face. I'll see it. If I see in the prose that I'm - 'Boy, look at me writing,' I rewrite it. I rewrite it because I don't, because I think it's distracting.

Elmore Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 11, 1925 - August 20, 2013

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France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.

John Lanchester

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The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

Stanley Hauerwas

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He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

Robert E. Sherwood

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Animals raised on corn produce fattier meat, but it's not just that it's fattier, it's the kinds of fats. Corn-fed beef produces lots of saturated fats. So that the heart disease we associate with eating meat is really a problem with corn-fed meat. If you eat grass-fed beef, it has much more of the nutritional profile of the wild meat.

Michael Pollan

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It would be an honour to knock out Botha.

Joseph Parker

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What I do is a little bigger than traditional country. I've been belting all my life, so I fit right in with the musical-theater style.

Diana DeGarmo

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The great thing about working in comics is that visually, you're the sole voice. You have to figure out the staging, the lighting, the composition, the character emotions, the action. You get a script, but you're trying to work it out in individual panels. It's a terrific exercise in creative thinking and creative problem-solving.

Chris Renaud

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Christina Rossetti

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My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.

Philip Roth

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There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don't get to. And that's one of the reasons why I've talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, what don't we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues.

Scott Pruitt

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I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the Series.

Rickey Henderson

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