Donna Leon Quotes

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.

Donna Leon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 29, 1942

Topics

MusicPassionFestivalsWriteReal

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

John Doolittle

OpportunityTimeFreeLawyerYou

I'm a country singer, and I'm comfortable with that. But why does a country singer have to play only on country radio or a rock singer only on a rock station? I still don't understand why it's that big a deal.

Steve Earle

CountryPlayRockWhyUnderstand

All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.

Russell Smith

CoffeeBookPictureIdiotYouWhy

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

Romeo Miller

DanceSchoolHigh SchoolDownKnow

Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.

Lorrie Fair

WinWorldGameUpsetCherishOver

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

EnglishReadSpanishPuttGreens

Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it's not the end goal. It's a mechanism.

Conrad Wolfram

ProcessEndSearchTryingYouGoal

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

FightIdentityPersonalFirstClub

I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort of flipside to that. 'Reckoner' is my favorite, just my favorite Radiohead song. That, 'Idioteque,' and 'Pyramid Song' are my top three.

Phoebe Tonkin

SongThreeTopPyramidJustLike

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

Susanna Kearsley

WritingSometimesActThingsBeing

What we need is to make our senior citizens feel secure once more with their own Social Security and Medicare. But going forward, we need to personalize that program in a way that the government can't go in and raid it any more.

Sharron Angle

GovernmentForwardFeelSecurityGo

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

Sherry Stringfield

LifeRealizeOutLeaveSomewhere

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