Daniel Levitin Quotes
The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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One pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
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Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
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I never see how meaty my role is. If I like the script in its entirety, the director, or if my co-star is someone I greatly admire, I sign up. You learn so much being part of a great team.
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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
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The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
