Levon Helm Quotes
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
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Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
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In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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My dream role? I think to play Sammy Davis Jr. and his life story.
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I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.
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I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.
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Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.
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My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
