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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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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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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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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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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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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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
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There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.
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Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
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In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal 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.
