Jonathan Levine Quotes
I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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I think many actresses want to be famous and want to be the prettiest, and that wasn't my trek. I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here... how do I get out of here?' I like acting, but I like directing more.
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe.
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I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands.
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I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
