Dan Levitan Quotes
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
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Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
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I think we speak to a certain mindset, and it's about, you know, inspiring people who are progressive thinkers who want to see change.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
