David Leavitt Quotes

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

David Leavitt

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RelationshipWritingChildlikeMore

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

Jerry O'Connell

FootballProfessionalNeverSomething

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

Maya Angelou

IgnoranceStupidityPeopleMeRich

A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.

Stellan Skarsgard

AudienceExistFilmMeetsUntil

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Trofim Lysenko

DayFightFreeGuiltyOutClassics

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

Tom Landry

PositiveSportsBestNegativeEarly

I loved working with Mickey Rourke. He's a wonderful kind of crazy.

Joseph Morgan

CrazyLovedKindWonderfulWorking

I've been making deals all my life.

Donald Trump

LifeMy LifeBeenMakingDeals

All I ever wanted was a big, happy family.

Christie Brinkley

FamilyHappyBigWantedEver

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

Colm Toibin

LifeDayEvery DayWriteWhere

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Confucius

ManLookObservePleasuresMotives

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.

Bruce Sutter

LifeBaseballStoryMy LifeTalking

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

LifeWriteRealAlwaysWhatever

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