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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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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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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You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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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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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
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The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?
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I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
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The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself.
