Jonathan Levine Quotes
As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I don't like controversy.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Being a black person in America is exhausting.
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I want children.
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Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
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As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.
