Alison Levine Quotes
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
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There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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The journey is where we find perspective.
