Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.
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I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
