Leon Uris

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Famous quotes by Leon Uris:

"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."

"[She said the book that changed her life was] Exodus ... a sense of identification."

"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."

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

"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."

"Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about."

"I was a terrible English student."

"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."

"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."

"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."

"I do not write for an audience."

"I essentially write for myself."

"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."

"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."

"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."

"I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps."

"I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish."

"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."

Freight Train Blues

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Freight Train Blues

by: Lynn Morris

I was born in dixie in a boomer's shack,
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
Freight train was comin' I had to cry,
Hummin all the drivers with my lullaby
I've got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy mama got 'em on the bottom of my ramblin'
shoes
And when the whistle blows, I gotta go
Baby don't you know
It looks like I'm never gonna lose
The freight train blues.
Well, my daddy was a fireman in a house out here
She was the only daughter of the engineer
Sweetheart of the brakeman, that ain't no joke
It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke.
I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy I got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes
And when the whistle blows, I gotta go
Oh mama don't you know
It looks like I'm never gonna lose
The freight train blues.
Well, the only thing that makes you laugh again
Is a south bound whistle on a south bound train
Ev'ry place I want to go
I never go because you know
Because I got the freight train blues (hee, hee, hoo)
Oh, lawdy mama, got 'em on the bottom of my ramblin'

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While we were entertained by Hollywood productions—beginning with the show trials in Nuremberg and their later film adaptation cast with famous stars of American stage and screen— and continuing with ...

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Corral is a 1957 Western written by novelist Leon Uris, produced by ...

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LETTER: Two Israels at play

Business Day 12 Aug 2024

At least on the surface. Having read Leon Uris’ Exodus, sung Hava Nagila and listened to stories about the Entebbe raid, Israeli teenager arrogance, bomb shelters and the pervasive gun culture rather passed over my young head ... James Cunningham.

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What Bernie Madoff was like behind bars

New York Post 20 Jul 2024

At their first face-to-face meeting at Butner, Madoff ran through his daily routine, from working in the kitchens to reading books, Leon Uris’s 1953 novel “Battle Cry” being a favorite.

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Eichmann, Exodus, and Entebbe

Deccan Herald 11 Jul 2024

<p>The Reading Room, a government-run library on Reading Room Road (no surprise), was an oasis for book enthusiasts in the small town of Arsikere ... <em>Exodus</em>, by Leon Uris, was their fattest book.

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Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

The Observer 27 Jun 2024

10 ... View image in fullscreen ... Fact-based fiction or Zionist propaganda? Either way, Otto Preminger’s epic, adapted by the formerly blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo from Leon Uris’s bestseller, is simplistic, exposition-heavy and lumbers on for ever ... .

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Kevin McStay accepts Mayo are not ‘at the top level’ after Derry deliver latest heartache

Irish Independent 24 Jun 2024

The last line in Leon Uris’s epic ...

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The Times Daily Quiz: Thursday 18, 2024

The Times/The Sunday Times 18 Apr 2024

Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku. 1 What is Egypt’s largest city by population? ... 9 Which 1967 Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris was adapted into an Alfred Hitchcock film?. 10 Which ... .

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Owensboro Symphony to present 'Arabian Nights' concert

Messenger-Inquirer 01 Mar 2024

tomorrow, March 2. Pieces to be performed include selections from films like David Lean’s 1962 seven-time Academy Award-winning film “Lawrence of Arabia” and Leon Uris’ 1960 epic historical drama “Exodus” among others ... .

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The King William’s College quiz 2023 – the answers

The Observer 22 Feb 2024

Click here to see the questions. 1. Nobel prize in physiology or medicine (co-workers Banting and Macleod awarded for discovery of insulin). Jack Hobbs scored his hundredth hundred (Surrey v Somerset, Bath) ... 1-4) ... Sir Robert Highsmith (Leon Uris, QB VII).

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What Did You Do during the Gaza Genocide?

Dissident Voice 20 Feb 2024

We owe a debt to Elie Wiesel, Leon Uris and all the historians, writers and filmmakers who produced thousands of books and films about the Nazi holocaust of the Jews, as well as some who documented ...

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What Did You Do During the Gaza Genocide? “They Feel entitled to Commit these Crimes”

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Woody Paige: Another sad Super Bowl Sunday for Broncos Country

Colorado Springs Gazette 10 Feb 2024

Game of Thorns at Rose Bowl — Leon Uris, the famous author of “Exodus’’ and “QB VII’’ (which was not about the Broncos quarterback), and an Aspen resident was hired by my newspaper to cover the ...

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Adventures in Reading: The importance of a free press

Tri-County Tribune 02 Feb 2024

This blog was motivated by a quote from Leon Uris’s book Mila 18,–a conversation between a disillusioned news journalist who feels as though his reporting is being ignored and his editor, who ...

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Freight Train Blues

Latest News for: Leon Uris

Economical Explanations: Reflection on the Aims of Past Wars and Wars to Come

The Legacy of Colonial History. Reflection on the Aims of Past Wars and Wars to Come

Historians Ripped Apart This Directors Classic Western, So He Remade It

LETTER: Two Israels at play

What Bernie Madoff was like behind bars

Eichmann, Exodus, and Entebbe

Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

Kevin McStay accepts Mayo are not ‘at the top level’ after Derry deliver latest heartache

The Times Daily Quiz: Thursday 18, 2024

Owensboro Symphony to present 'Arabian Nights' concert

The King William’s College quiz 2023 – the answers

What Did You Do during the Gaza Genocide?

What Did You Do During the Gaza Genocide? “They Feel entitled to Commit these Crimes”

Woody Paige: Another sad Super Bowl Sunday for Broncos Country

Adventures in Reading: The importance of a free press

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