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Donna Leon Quotes

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Love Music Television Place TV

Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves.

Robert Greenblatt

King Me Comedy Everyone Genre Loves

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Maureen Forrester

Mother Children Cooking Woman Voice

Thanks to malaria elimination efforts in United States in the 1940s, most people in the U.S. today have never had any direct contact with the disease, and most doctors have never seen a case. That success means it's easy to have a relaxed attitude about protecting ourselves.

Success Attitude Today People Easy

I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.

Time Choices Care You Choice Down

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Poverty Too Much Places Where Going

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

Song Better You Find Pretty Things

My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world.

Depression Experience Parents World

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Me Nervous Restless Most Troubles

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Dennis Washington

Job Looking Always Up Paper Pass

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

Excuses Always Make Younger Taught

I was drafted during the Korean War.

War Korean War Korean Drafted

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

Down Stuff Before Invented Term

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