Jonathan Levine Quotes
I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a good Catholic boy.
-
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
-
I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
-
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
-
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
-
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
-
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-
I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
-
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
-
It's brutal out on the football field.
-
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
-
If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
-
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
-
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
-
I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
-
Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
-
I like to do Pilates.
-
You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.
-
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
-
Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.
-
You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.
-
I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.
