David Levithan Quotes

It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

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• I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

  

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• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

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• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

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• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

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• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

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• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

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• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

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• You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

  

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• I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

  

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• A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

  

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• I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

  

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• I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

  

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• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

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• In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

  

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• I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

  

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• Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.

  

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• It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

  

  David Levithan
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