Andrea Levy Quotes
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
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I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.
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Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help.
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Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!
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FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation.
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I'm finally dating. It's fun.
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My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.
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When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.
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He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance.
