Daniel Levitin Quotes
Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.Daniel Levitin
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine -
Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
Naval Ravikant -
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
Harmony Korine -
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
Vince Lombardi -
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
Zoe Kazan
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
Kate Micucci -
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
Uzo Aduba -
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
Olly Murs -
If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
L'Wren Scott
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
Omari Hardwick -
Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
Walter Kirn -
I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
Gary Busey -
Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
Jackson Katz -
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
Natasha Tsakos -
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I came, I saw, God conquered.
Charles V -
Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
Felicity Kendal -
Engvall: Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, 'Hey...' (pantomimes hitting his son) 'We don't hit'. He looked at me like, 'Here's your sign, Dad'.
Bill Engvall -
I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.
Jared Harris -
Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
Daniel Levitin