Ira Levin Quotes
Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.Ira Levin
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
Maika Monroe -
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke -
In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
Paige VanZant -
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
F. Sionil Jose -
In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
Washed Out -
Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
Owen Paterson -
The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
Dan Webster -
I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
J. J. Watt -
I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
Vera Farmiga -
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
Dan Marino
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
Mal Peet -
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn -
I have my career and my family, and that's it.
Eddie Marsan -
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
Xavier Niel -
If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
Katee Sackhoff -
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
Famke Janssen
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When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.
Eric Massa -
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
Branford Marsalis -
I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
Tawni O'Dell -
As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.
Jacquelyn Jablonski -
Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.
Ira Levin