Jonathan Levine Quotes
I like a pretty relaxed, fun set. Everyone knows they can bring whoever they want and hang out.
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I really, really need community.
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When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.
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Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.
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I like a pretty relaxed, fun set. Everyone knows they can bring whoever they want and hang out.
