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.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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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.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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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.
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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.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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.
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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.'
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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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.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
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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.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.
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What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.
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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.
