Jonathan Levine Quotes
I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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When a life is at stake and it's your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you jut become fanatic. Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.
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To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
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There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
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I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
