Jonathan Levine Quotes
I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
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In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
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I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.
