Elmore Leonard Quotes

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

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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Earlier I had been in New York, which was my first time to New York, and I got booked in the Baby Grand up in Harlem there. I was booked there for a week; they kept me there for about a month. That's where Doc Pomus and myself became very close friends and start running together around town and what not.

Jimmy Scott

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I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Jerry Harrison

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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

Joe Trohman

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Media is everything. It's everything.

Andrew Breitbart

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

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Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing.

Stacy London

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When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked it so much that I ended up reading all thirteen of Ransome's books, including the ones that I missed out on. This led my son to 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Coral Island.'

Michelle Magorian

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Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.

Janet Yellen

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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Dorothy Allison

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I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

Deborah Norville

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There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.

Brian Greene

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