Jonathan Levine Quotes

I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.

Jonathan Levine

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Done
  • She
  • Experience

• Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Crush

• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Different
  • Think
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Like
  • Hearing

• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Consider

• I don't have business with any politicians.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Politicians
  • Any

• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Trying
  • Daily

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Character

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Education
  • College

• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Lists that segment people into clearly-defined categories are particularly valuable to direct marketers, which can tailor their sales pitch to a particular demographic and, therefore, increase the likelihood of making a sale.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • People
  • Sales

• Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Money
  • Free
  • Freedom

• When you solve big, hard problems, problems that fundamentally improve how an industry works, financial returns follow, giving you resources to do more of the same.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Giving
  • Financial

• For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

  

  D. W Brogan
  • Important
  • Home
  • War

• I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Song