Adrian Levy Quotes
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.
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Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
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I started playing frat parties at Cornell. I would just play four-hour shows, mostly cover songs. At first everybody would get a drink while I played my own songs, but that started to change, I liked playing music; I didn't like school. I transferred to NYU to be closer to home and to be closer to the music scene.
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I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
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The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself.
