Donna Leon Quotes
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
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I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.
