Daniel Levitin Quotes
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
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'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
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'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.
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An organized mind leads effortlessly to good decision-making.
