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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The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.
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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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We all have different lives outside of Matchbox, but every time we get together, it’s the exact same. The dynamic is always the same and always works. We have the same energy now as we did when we first started.
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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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You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian
