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Jonathan Levine Quotes

As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Jonathan Levine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: June 18, 1976

Topics

Me Think Career Personal Director

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

Joanna Scott

Truth Heart Time Art Lie Start

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

Melissa McCarthy

Beautiful Time Queen New York Crazy

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

Robert M. Gates

Criticism Say Nothing Little Avoid

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

Matthew Barney

Way Everything Heavy Role Like He

There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the culture of our city.

Trombone Shorty

Work Culture City Pride Musicians

I actually don't think Ireland has a summer. I never experienced a summer there. It was just so wet.

Travis Fimmel

Think Summer Never Wet Just Ireland

Sally Gardner must drive her publishers to distraction: no sooner have they worked out how to market one brilliant book than she delivers another that is just as brilliant but totally different.

Tony Bradman

Drive Book Brilliant She Distraction

The examined life is no picnic.

Robert Fulghum

Life Picnic Examined

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

Fear War Country Now Economy Arms

I also work with the spirituality of people.

Della Reese

Work People Spirituality Also

Jose Aldo, he's a stud, and I would be honored to be in there to throw down with him.

Donald Cerrone

Down Him Honored Stud Would Throw

I can't imagine, I can't get in the mind of a wrestling fan who wants to break news that spoils a surprise for somebody. Would you want a surprise spoiled?

Dean Ambrose

Mind Surprise You News Want Break