Alison Levine Quotes
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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I was on the lookout for something different, as I was exhausted with the fiction space. When I was asked to host 'Tujhse Naaraz Nahin Zindagi,' it was not as an actor but as an individual, and on being explained the concept, I found it interesting and accepted it since it was about real people and real life.
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A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.
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As long as I live I will have control over my being.
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Stay small and control it yourself.
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But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.
