Ira Levin Quotes
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
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I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.
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You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.
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Don't mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you touch my kids one more time, then you'll be in danger too.
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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
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I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
