James Levine Quotes
When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.
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I thought it would be cool to Skype with fans on their birthday and spend, like, a half-hour with them. I did a couple of two-hour Skypes. I just hang out with them and play songs and stuff. At first they're kind of shy, but after a while they open up. I've had a lot of people tell me I'm doing something no one has ever done before.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
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My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.
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When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.
