Jonathan Levine Quotes
I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
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My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive.
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I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.
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For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
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I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.
