"I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills."

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Source : "This much I know: Elmore Leonard". Interview with John O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

Elmore Leonard

#Pay Quotes #Bills Quotes #Frightened Quotes

“The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.”
“I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.”
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.”
“Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.”
“Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.”
“Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.”
“Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?”

Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.303, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”

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