Barry Levinson Quotes
I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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Age affects how people experience time.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
