H. T. Leslie Quotes

One of the biggest limitations on consoles is the amount of memory available to the game.

Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.

I never think, Oh, I'm so beautiful. To me, feeling happy is more important.

My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

I've had some styles that make me wonder what the hell I was thinking. How did I let someone do that to me?

I'm not a 'Steel Magnolias' kind of girl. I'm kind of like a guy. My favorite movie is 'Caddyshack.'

I hate being a blonde.

As with any relationship, the market favors those who give more value than they ask for.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

I don't want to feel a shoe; I want the shoe to become part of me.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Steve Burton, I adore. He's got the overall picture. He's wise beyond his years. He's not overwhelmed, and he's not in awe. He's a gentleman. And a hunk.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

It's funny to be a critic.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.

If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.

Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.

A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.