"I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person."

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Source : "A Tale Of Two Cities: Author Donna Leon's Venice". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 13, 2012.

Donna Leon

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“I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.”

Source : Source: www.scholastic.com
“For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”

Source : Karl Barth, Eberhard Busch (2005). “Gespräche, 1963”
“I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast”
“Black man, you are on your own.”
“If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.”
“Good timing is invisible. Bad timing sticks out a mile.”
“Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.”

Source : James L Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.90, Encounter Books

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