David Levithan Quotes
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I think I need security.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
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My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
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I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.
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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
