Ira Levin Quotes
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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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Sports is my passion.
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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
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There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30.
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Sri Sathya Sai Baba as a preacher of the highest human values was an iconic figure for over five decades. He endeared himself to the people through various institutions, with headquarters at Prashanthi Nilayam, that promoted egalitarian values, education and public health.
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I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
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He knows me, he knows the doctors here, and we are the best hospital in this part of the world. It's true, I am serious.
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I'm a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it's tracts of homes.
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I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.
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I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'
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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
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America is strongest when families take care of each other and walk with one another through need and loss.
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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
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I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.
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I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.
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My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.
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No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.
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I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.
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Far from being a truly independent guide to moral conducts, the…holy books are… like a Rorschach Test: which passages people choose to emphasize reflects as much as it shapes their moral character and interests.
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Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.
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Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler.
