Daniel Levitin Quotes
The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
Quotes to Explore
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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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'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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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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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'
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The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.
