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Elmore Leonard Quotes

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Home Live Me Writing Start Want

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

Work Money Gun Problem Country Will

At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.

Technology Building Celebrate Small

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Life Wife Writing My Life Say Up

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Road You Two Curse Define Happens

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

Me Down Teachers Difficult Found

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Lost Where Been Weight Doctors Were

I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.

Miriam Margolyes

People Think I Think How Judged Bit

I've convinced myself I'm something special. When you do that, man, you're dangerous, especially when you have the athleticism and work ethic to back it up.

Work Myself Man Work Ethic You Back

New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.

Change New York City Looks New Want

Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.

Family Man Story Think Interesting

I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

Me Emotions Now Talk Inside Right

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Truth Truth Is Outside Patterns Set

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