Donna Leon Quotes

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.

Donna Leon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

Lou Ferrigno

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In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

Diamond Dallas Page

LifeYouLivingReactPercentHow

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Doug Stanhope

LaughYouFindHumourEvenShould

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

Christina Ricci

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It's easier to get an actor when you just ask them to do a day on something rather than have them come in, audition, get picked.

Allison Jones

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We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

Winston Marshall

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I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

Peter Jennings

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I owe my family first, but I also have others around me that I have to perform for.

Tyron Woodley

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I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

Ryan Kwanten

HomeHeartWaterEnoughLandThan

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

Myron Scholes

InnovationFreedomEndRulesUp

Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

Lupita Nyong'o

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I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

James McAvoy

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