Donna Leon Quotes

I have some lifelong friends I grew up with.

The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the third time you meet them, you're old hats.

I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago.

I've stayed friends with the boys I've known since I was 10.

Friends came on the road, came on tour, came in my music videos; I got in the studio with them. I'm a really loyal person, and I don't have a really large group of friends, but the people I hang out with I really, really care about, and they continue to be a part of my life.

I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.

I have had the same friends for a really long time, and I like them because they like some of the stuff I like, but they are also really different from me.

I hang around a core group of people, a small group of people. They've been around me for a long time. They know my personality. They know me in and out, same as my family.

One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known.

The relationships that I've built there, and the people that I've come across, I met some of my best friends in life at the University of Texas.

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.