Marne Levine Quotes
When I went to college in 1988, most people were probably trying to figure out how they were going to decorate their rooms, who was going to be on their floor, what classes they were going to take. My big preoccupation at that point was figuring out how I could get my absentee ballot so that I could vote in Ohio for Michael Dukakis at that time.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I love Amarte. It's a Korean brand. They are amazing. All of their products are so great.
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Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.
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When I went to college in 1988, most people were probably trying to figure out how they were going to decorate their rooms, who was going to be on their floor, what classes they were going to take. My big preoccupation at that point was figuring out how I could get my absentee ballot so that I could vote in Ohio for Michael Dukakis at that time.
