Jonathan Levine Quotes
I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.
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The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.
