Eddie Levert Quotes
I just want to be worthy. I just want to be able to make people understand that okay, Eddie is still good at what he does, so we can now go and buy that ticket to his concert, and I can feel like they bought it and they got their money's worth.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
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A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry is a standard Oscar Williams production... ...the book has the merit of containing a considerably larger selection of Oscar Williams’s poems than I have seen in any other anthology. There are nine of his poems - and five of Hardy’s. It takes a lot of courage to like your own poetry almost twice as well as Hardy’s.
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I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
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If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.
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Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
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I just want to be worthy. I just want to be able to make people understand that okay, Eddie is still good at what he does, so we can now go and buy that ticket to his concert, and I can feel like they bought it and they got their money's worth.
