Donna Leon Quotes
I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.Donna Leon
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
Pat Travers -
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
Maggie Kuhn -
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky -
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
Hanna Rosin -
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
Adam Clarke
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern -
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
Yann Tiersen -
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Frances McDormand
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
Mahesh Babu -
I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
Daniel Ek -
I'm a really bad liar.
Daniel Craig -
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
Zadie Smith -
I think it's good to conquer the fears.
Maika Monroe -
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
Larry Page
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
Cameron Diaz -
The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)
Marshall McLuhan -
Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
Lech Walesa -
LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.
Jeff Weiner -
Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
John Grisham -
I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.
Donna Leon