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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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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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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Restrictions will set you free.
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As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.
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I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.
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A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.
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The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
