Jonathan Levine Quotes
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.
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The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
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One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
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With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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I am many people. Technique is always the consequence of the dominating concept.. ..with the change of concept, technique will change.
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I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.
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Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
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The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.
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It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!
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Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
