Daniel Levin Becker Quotes
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You can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings because that was unique to us.
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I've always been a quiet guy.
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If there's any state in the country whose values are not consistent with the things Trump has been saying, it's the State of Maryland.
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Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do!
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When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.
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No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.
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Always stay true to your nature. Anything that you are being hired for in any aspect of life whether it is a banking job, acting directing, whatever it is you have to stay true to who you are because they hired you to do what you do.
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If you believe in God, you put love in everything you do.
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I think you're only as good as the work that you do.
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This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!
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I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!
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Earth is in space, too, so really sex in space isn't anything new.
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Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.
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I think the message from me is that you can work very hard, and someday, the work will pay off.
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In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.
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I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.
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I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!
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I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.
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In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.
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And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... which was of more importance than our original purpose.
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Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.
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After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!
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You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian
