David Levien Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
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I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
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I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go up and stroke it, but I wouldn't run screaming from it, either.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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I had a small part in 'Pineapple Express.'
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Whenever I start something, I will always do everything I can to be the best at it.
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I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn't think of being on 'American Idol.' I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have.
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I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.
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Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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I wanted to be liked when I was younger, which I think a lot of us do; I'm not ashamed to say it. I was a product of my environment, a product of my culture.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.
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I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.
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Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
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At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
