James Levine Quotes

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Performance

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Home
  • Feeling

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Home
  • Weird

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Revenge

• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Dream
  • Sweet

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Doing
  • Just
  • Concentrate

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Why
  • You
  • Own

• Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Passion
  • Dance

• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Experience

• If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dance
  • Successful
  • Tennis

• As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • Horse

• One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Faith
  • Kid
  • Reasons

• We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Business
  • Taken

• I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Dark
  • Two
  • Chocolate

• There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • True
  • Pretty

• Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

  

  David Chalmers
  • Up

• When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Up
  • Small
  • Dad

• Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

  

  Matt Ross
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hair

• If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Want
  • Things

• But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

  

  James Levine
  • Up
  • Important
  • Fall