Philip Levine Quotes
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
Quotes to Explore
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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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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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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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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Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
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When your name is Twinkle, you are a bookworm, and a fat child, then you have to be ready to be made fun of. As a child, I used my fists a lot, but then the tongue seemed like a better option. So I started using words as a sword to jab fun at myself.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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It's not just about young people - there are films being made that deal with women getting older. That's a huge bonus, and here in America, that's a huge step forward.
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Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.
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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.
