Daniel Levitin Quotes
Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
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When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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I was never into the powders or pills. I tried it all but didn't like that clenched-teeth feeling. I didn't like the 'I'm a palpitating rabbit and I'm gonna solve the world's problems' feeling either. I drank some beer. I'm still here.
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The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
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Something seems to happen to people when they meet a journalist, and what happens is exactly the opposite of what one would expect. One would think that extreme wariness and caution would be the order of the day, but, in fact, childish trust and impetuosity are far more common.
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I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
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No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
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Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.
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Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.
