Daniel Levitin Quotes
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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If I am meant to do a Bollywood film, I will get it. If not, I won't. I really don't differentiate between industries. As long as I get roles that give me a high, I enjoy it.
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Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love
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In the ’50s and ’60s there was segregation here in the Bay Area and all over the country. There was a curfew for young blacks my age in the Fillmore district where I lived. It was a disturbing thing. There were civil rights movements here in San Francisco. They would show on the national news the dogs being sicced on the marchers, being sprayed with the hoses, being beaten with the batons.
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We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.
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You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
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The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
