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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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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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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Oh providence! Oh nature! Treasure of the poor, resource of the unfortunate. The person who feels, knows your holy laws and trusts them, the person whose heart is at peace and whose body does not suffer, thanks to you is not entirely prey to adversity.
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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
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Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.
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I'm perfectly willing to say no more Iraqs, which means no more unilateral starting of the war on false claims, false information, and a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the situation in the region.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.
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Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? have you reckoned the earth much? Have you practised so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
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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.
