Andrea Levy Quotes
We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top-the twinkling electric lights below mingling with the stars-Father said something I will never forget. He said, 'See here, Queenie. Look around. You've got the whole world at your feet, lass.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
-
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
-
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
-
There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
-
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
-
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
-
I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
-
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
-
I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
-
I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
-
God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
-
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
-
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
-
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
-
I have no television - I hate it.
-
In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
-
In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
-
I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.
-
One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.
-
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
-
We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top-the twinkling electric lights below mingling with the stars-Father said something I will never forget. He said, 'See here, Queenie. Look around. You've got the whole world at your feet, lass.
