Donna Leon Quotes
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
Quotes to Explore
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
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Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.
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I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
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I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.
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My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
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I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.
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The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
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People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.
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I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
