Oscar Levant Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Looking back, I remember telling my daughters that we didn't have money, pizzazz and a lot of the things we have today, but we had so much love and we lived like millionaires.
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And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful - how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.
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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.
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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
