Jack Levine Quotes
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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I began to suspect that Daddy had been right all along: the only hope I had of changing the world was to change myself first.
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To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
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When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.
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For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.
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The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.
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I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
