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 personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.
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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
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I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.
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It’s utter sublimation, A feat, this heart’s control Moment to moment To scale all love down To a cupped hand’s size
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But we can’t control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.
