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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My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
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You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.
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I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
