Philip Levine Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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Being an actor, I feel I need to take up challenges and do different roles without thinking about whether the audience will accept me in those roles or not.
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I've barfed in movies before. It seems like it always ends up being Campbell's soup mixed with something else.
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On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.
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No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
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I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.
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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
