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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All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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I love teaching; I love little kids.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
