Donna Leon Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
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Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
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Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.
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I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
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I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
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I'm so straight and boring, really. I have two kids and a very nice partner.
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I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
