A Quote by Elmore Leonard

Avoid prologues: they can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

Elmore Leonard

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After Annoying Avoid Following Introduction Prologue

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Elmore Leonard
American - Novelist
October 11, 1925 - August 20, 2013

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

Frederik Pohl

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

Margaret Halsey

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

Darby Conley

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Rachel Roy

When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.

Jenny Lewis

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

Craig Ferguson

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Mary Roach

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Mary Roach

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

Madchen Amick

Drag was not only my introduction to womanhood, but my introduction to entertainment. It was the first time I realized that I could move a crowd.

Trace Lysette

A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

Muhammadu Buhari

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

Madchen Amick

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.