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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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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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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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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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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The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates.
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Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.
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What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.
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It's easy to look like Santa Claus when you don't have to buy the groceries.
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Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.
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We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.
