David Levering Lewis Quotes
1900 was a bit of mixed bag, it seems to me, on the one hand, because this is the year when this country becomes the premiere producer of manufactured goods. Clearly, a lot of people were making a lot of money, but it's also a time that reflects the savaging of one of the deepest depressions.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
-
It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
-
People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
-
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
-
I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
-
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
-
The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
-
I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
-
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
-
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
-
I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
-
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
-
But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
-
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
-
I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
-
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
-
All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
-
I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
-
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
-
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.
-
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
-
It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.
-
1900 was a bit of mixed bag, it seems to me, on the one hand, because this is the year when this country becomes the premiere producer of manufactured goods. Clearly, a lot of people were making a lot of money, but it's also a time that reflects the savaging of one of the deepest depressions.
