Jack Levine Quotes
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Quotes to Explore
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
