Andrea Levy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Time will bring healing.
-
As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A kiss from my mother made me a painter.
-
I know he doesn't like the word '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.
-
Without Bates, they didn't have the penetration they usually get.
-
I don't think you've ever heard anything bad about me, and I'd like to keep it that way.
-
I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.
-
I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.
-
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.
-
If truly tested, how would we react?
