Oscar Levant Quotes
John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man-always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
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The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
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When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
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Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
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Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.
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I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.
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If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.
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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
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John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man-always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.
