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Leon Uris

"I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer."

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"I can't control your behavior; nor do I want that burden. but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out."

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"You won't forget a woman like her, easily anyway. Once you cross paths with Magic it's hard to see life the same."

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"You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally."

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"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."

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"English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it."
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"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."
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"I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer."
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"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
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"I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do."
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"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."
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"You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation."
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"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."
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"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."
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"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."
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