Marne Levine Quotes
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
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I dive as much as I can.
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Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; the world judges us by our behavior. People don't necessarily want to know what we believe about the Bible. They want to see if what we believe makes a difference in our lives. Our actions either bring glory to God or misrepresent His truth.
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In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.
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I don't have a 'Born to Run' in me.
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Say thank you. Say it often, and say it with meaning.
