Stephen Leigh famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.
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Which isn't the truth, you understand. At least you understand that in your head...but not always in your heart.
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Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.
-- Stephen Leigh
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
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Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'
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I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.
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