Oscar Levant Quotes
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.
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Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.
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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
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So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
