Top 38 Hugh Leonard Quotes
#2. I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
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#3. I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
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#4. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.
Britney Spears
#5. The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
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#6. I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.
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#7. There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
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#8. The point of power is always in the present moment.
Louise L. Hay
#9. Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#10. Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
Anita Desai
#13. I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
Alex Webb
#14. I'll buy myself some plastic water, I should have married Lennon's daughter.
Ozzy Osbourne
#15. I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
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#16. My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
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#17. Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
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#18. The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
#19. Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.
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#20. I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
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#21. As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
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#22. My grandmother made dying her life's work.
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#23. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships..
Ansel Adams
#24. My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.
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#25. Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.
Gram Parsons
#26. I was proud of 'House, MD,' and I think it was good for what it was and remarkably smart for a television show. I loved Hugh Laurie and was proud to be by his side that long and to be trusted by him.
Robert Sean Leonard
#27. I think with every writer there are two people there.
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#28. It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.
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#29. My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
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#30. I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.
John B. S. Haldane
#32. We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
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#33. An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.
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#34. We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.
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#35. Bun. Sir, said I, Wickliffe saith, that he which leaveth off preaching and hearing of the Word of God for fear of excommunication of men, he is already excommunicated of God, and shall in the day of judgment be counted a traitor to Christ.
John Bunyan
#36. My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
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#37. I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
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#38. I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
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