Jonathan Levine Quotes

I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.

Jonathan Levine

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• I like to give people more than their money's worth.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Money
  • Worth

• Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Always

• The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Long
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• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
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• I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Guy
  • Lie
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• I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Pretty
  • Poetry
  • Inspired

• A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Me
  • Wish

• Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Treat

• Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • May

• C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Help
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• I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Song
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• Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
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• I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
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• I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.

  

  Jaimie Alexander
  • She
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• They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Guy
  • Game
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• Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Time
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  • Character

• I thought, 'Who is the first vampire ever? It's Peter Murphy!'

  

  David Slade
  • Vampire

• Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Couple

• I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Vampire