Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
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It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.
