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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It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.
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This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.
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I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.
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I've been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what won't. I can tell instantly if it's a hero or a zero.
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You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.
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Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.
