Donna Leon Quotes
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
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One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
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For the life of me, I could not make a good-looking ice-cream cone.
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Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
