Philip Levine Quotes
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.
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You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
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So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
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My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.
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Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible and can lead to disappointment. If you don't live together, you spend more time with other people and ease the pressure off your lover.
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
