Ken Levine (Kenneth M. Levine) Quotes
Creation is either one of the worst experiences (when it’s going poorly) or one of the best. At its best, it’s an escape from worry.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.
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When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.
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Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.
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My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.
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One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.
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On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
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I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it.
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You can't fake being able to cook well.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The US Treasury is simply not a church building fund.
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The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.
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Creation is either one of the worst experiences (when it’s going poorly) or one of the best. At its best, it’s an escape from worry.
