Ira Levin Quotes
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
Quotes to Explore
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair.
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I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.
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Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.
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We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
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For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
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It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
