Da Hugh Leonard Quotes & Sayings

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got. — Betty Smith

You don't propose marriage after one date. You don't decide on a career after one article or class session. You don't cast your vote based on one opinion of the candidate in question. Stories, essays, novels, and memoirs all deserve to be, indeed have to be read multiple times. Every writer worth his or her salt knows that writing is rewriting. Every reader should know the same thing about understanding text: that is, real reading is rereading. — Dave Eggers

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor. — Keanu Reeves

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Although telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't. I had to put on so much makeup and wear a push-up bra and have huge hair with blond highlights. I was falling into a mentality where "more" was more beautiful. — Genesis Rodriguez

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them. — Joe Dante

No one ever died from an open mind. — Jillian Michaels

Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.'
'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my voice doesn't change the truth. — Eloisa James

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. — Lev Grossman

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of. — Narendra Modi

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine. — David Friedman

Fascinating, said the Patrician, and went back to not listening to Dibbler. He had not got where he was today by bothering how things worked. It was how people worked that intrigued him. — Terry Pratchett

You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone. — Elizabeth Berg

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Yes. I know. No one gets excited for class.
Except nerds.
I'd come to accept that title. I owned it. — Cambria Hebert