Carl Levin Quotes
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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What you are comes to you.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.
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I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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I'm not someone who's sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
