James Levine Quotes
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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I'm never bored.
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
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There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
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When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
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There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.
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In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
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Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
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The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.
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Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.
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It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
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Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.
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We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.