Steven Levitan Quotes

Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.

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• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • You
  • Same
  • Looking

• I love recording music.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Recording

• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Good
  • Depend
  • Editors

• If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Saying

• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Language
  • Feel

• Moonlight is sculpture.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Sculpture
  • Moonlight

• But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Think
  • Taken

• I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Feel
  • Say
  • I Can

• I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • World
  • Training
  • Baseball

• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • True
  • Man

• The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Character
  • Single
  • Best

• I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

  

  Constance Jablonski
  • Player
  • Tennis

• People are sometimes like: "Oh man, you're so talented and you do a bunch of stuff." I'm not! I swear to god, I'm not. I just like learning stuff, I like doing stuff. And I feel like everybody can definitely do it.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • inspirational
  • Interest
  • Enthusiasm

• South India has beautiful villages.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
  • India
  • Villages

• Truth is its own reward.

  

  Plato
  • Reward
  • Truth Is

• The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.

  

  Kaye Gibbons
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Dying

• I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Waiting
  • Honor
  • Sticks

• Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.

  

  Steven Levitan
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