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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Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.
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Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.
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In times of happiness we do not begin to perceive the strength of the mighty tenderness which the deep recesses of the heart hold for those we love. We need misfortune and the sense of suffering endured by those for whom we would give our last drop of blood, to learn the power of it.
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We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.
