Donna Leon Quotes

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Friend

• I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Leading

• I do find acting cathartic.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Acting
  • Find
  • Cathartic

• One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Today
  • Rest
  • Youth

• In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • People
  • Today
  • Years

• I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Remember
  • Soul
  • Feeling

• I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Believe
  • Oppression

• Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Defeat
  • Wants
  • Defending

• Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Focus

• Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Crazy

• The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Good
  • Kind

• The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • You
  • Kind

• I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Opinion

• I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • People
  • You
  • My Own

• In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first to do both. It was a great deal hard work, but I got a lot of support and love from my audience. And for me to receive the same treatment overseas, I felt that I was also very lucky.

  

  Rain
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Academic success depends on research and publications.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Success

• I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away.

  

  Bobby Clarke
  • High
  • Mom

• I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• People want to know on an ongoing basis, 'Am I doing right? Am I moving in the right direction? Do you think I'm progressing?' Nobody's going to wait for an annual cycle to get that feedback.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • People
  • Moving

• We actually probably do nothing very special for women. But what we do in a very special manner is to remain an absolute gender-neutral, merit-based organization.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Women
  • Organization

• I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

  

  Donna Leon