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

• It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Beginning
  • Thoughts

• Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Pretty
  • Respect
  • Decision

• We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.

  

  Edward James Salisbury
  • Growing
  • Weed
  • Definition

• You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Why
  • Together

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

  

  Donna Leon