Jonathan Levine Quotes
The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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The memories that I have are mostly at our old ranch, out in Agoura. We used to go out there every Saturday. I can smell the oak trees. I can see it so clearly.
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I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.
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I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.
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The fans that come and see us are of every age and every colour and are so diverse, but the one thing they share is that they are all really excited about our music.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.
