Andrea Levy Quotes

If truly tested, how would we react?

Andrea Levy

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• I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Means
  • Keep
  • Promised

• Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Lying

• When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Faith
  • Principle
  • Pretend

• Time will bring healing.

  

  Euripides
  • Time
  • Healing
  • Bring

• As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Direction
  • Steps

• It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.

  

  Chris Adrian
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Suffering

• Some might call my trepidation at the idea of motherhood “selfishness”—I would call it “agency”—but those people are probably either (1) dudes or (2) self-satisfied professional parents, and I’m not sure I care enough about their opinions that I wouldn’t just agree with them and shrug my shoulders in shared chagrin.

  

  Anna Holmes
  • Idea
  • Opinions
  • Motherhood

• I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Father
  • Band
  • Musician

• A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

  

  Benjamin West
  • Kiss
  • Painter
  • My Mother

• I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial'

  

  Curtis Strange
  • Word
  • Not Like
  • Ceremonial

• I got into television criticism because I thought it would be easier than film criticism. Film, you had to know 100 years of history, and TV you only had to know 40 when I started. And I thought, "Well, that's going to be so much easier." But film stayed pretty much the same. And television has changed so many times that my head hurts. So I made the wrong call there.

  

  David Bianculli
  • Film
  • Hurt
  • Criticism

• Without Bates, they didn't have the penetration they usually get.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Penetration

• I don't think you've ever heard anything bad about me, and I'd like to keep it that way.

  

  Slim Whitman
  • Anything
  • Heard
  • About

• I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Long
  • Pray
  • Still

• When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

  

  Willow Smith
  • Firsts
  • Industry
  • Watches

• Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• Avarice is a deadly sin.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Sin
  • Avarice
  • Deadly

• I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

  

  Josh Lucas
  • Power
  • Discipline
  • Challenged

• If truly tested, how would we react?

  

  Andrea Levy
  • React
  • Truly
  • Tested