Ken Levine (Kenneth M. Levine) Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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I don’t know what a star is. I never think about these things, because the more you think about them, the more your ears get used to them.
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We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
