Jonathan Levine Quotes
I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.
