Elmore Leonard Quotes

My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.

Elmore Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.

Anand Gopal

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I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

Solange Knowles

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I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

Steven Pinker

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Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

Sidney Poitier

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To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

Tom Hodgkinson

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Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

Ryan Bethencourt

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I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

Roland Joffe

BetterLikeThanFormatMuchDVDs

At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind.

Michelle Forbes

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I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

Michelle Gomez

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'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

Monique Roffey

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Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.

Juhi Chawla

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When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

Joseph Stiglitz

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