Donna Leon Quotes
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.Donna Leon
Quotes to Explore
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
Rachel Nichols -
I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Fanny Kemble -
I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
Kat Dennings -
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.
Eddie Redmayne -
I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
Yvonne Strahovski -
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Aaron Patzer -
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.
Carl Jung -
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.
Patrick Dempsey -
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!'
Carey Mulligan -
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.
Zhang Yin -
I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
Dana Perino
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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.
Warren Ellis -
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.
Narendra Modi -
I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.
Natascha McElhone -
My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
Gail Carson Levine -
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.
Eckhart Tolle -
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.'
Zig Ziglar
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I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!
Linda Sue Park -
Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas -
I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.
Vince Staples -
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Maurice Druon -
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
Donna Leon