I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.


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LEONARD NIMOY
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
ELMORE LEONARD
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all ...
ELMORE LEONARD
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and comm...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
GEORGE LEONARD
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...
LEONARD COHEN
Men give advice; God gives guidance.
LEONARD RAVENHILL
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be...
GEORGE LEONARD
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
LEONARD BRANDWEIN
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
GEORGE LEONARD
“The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that...
LEONARD RAVENHILL
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
LEONARD ORR
While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens...
LEONARD RAVENHILL
The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, ...
GEORGE LEONARD
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN
History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa...
GEORGE LEONARD
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does ...
LEONARD COHEN
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac...
LEONARD COHEN
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
LEONARD COHEN
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN
The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th...
LEONARD COHEN
He lay beside her, an insomniac with visions of vastness. He thought of desert stretches so huge no ...
LEONARD COHEN
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
LEONARD COHEN
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
LEONARD COHEN
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t...
LEONARD COHEN
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
LEONARD COHEN
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co...
LEONARD COHEN
When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
A customer who complains is my best friend.
STEW LEONARD
Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Clarity affords focus.
THOMAS LEONARD
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship ...
LEONARD COHEN
Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha...
LEONARD MLODINOW
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati...
LEONARD NIMOY