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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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.
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The last thing a Trump administration plans is a trade war. The issue simply is getting a decent trade deal with each of the major trading partners.
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What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
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When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'
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We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.
