Daniel Levitin Quotes
That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I am a just man.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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I was really a shy kid.
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The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.
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The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
