Donna Leon Quotes
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that.
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Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.
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I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
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My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
