Oscar Levant Quotes
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
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I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.
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I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
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She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.
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What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
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And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
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I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.
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The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.
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I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.
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It certainly will be if you are still around.
