Ira Levin Quotes
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I had a double bacon cheeseburger at Chili's, and I lost a tooth in it. My tooth!
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.
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Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'
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Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
