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It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.


Elmore Leonard

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LEONARD COHEN I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall w...
LEONARD NIMOY I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
LEONARD SLATKIN Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, gr...
LEONARD SUSSKIND I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chantin...
LEONARD COHEN Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin m...
LEONARD MALTIN The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control ...
LEONARD BOSWELL Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the ex...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my e...
LEONARD COHEN A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
LEONARD MALTIN On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figur...
LEONARD SLATKIN You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.
LEONARD BAILEY Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added...
LEONARD NIMOY Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chor...
LEONARD COHEN We're the underdogs and that's a good position to be in.
AMY LEONARD They had a lot of confidence coming in and they came in on a streak. A lot of people didn't give us ...
AMY LEONARD We couldn't really stop Clemens. Jessica was tough and you had two good teams playing and one had to...
AMY LEONARD She spent a lot of her own time working individually on her skills, her footwork, getting to the bas...
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