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 genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
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I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.
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Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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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.
