David Levering Lewis Quotes

I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.

David Levering Lewis

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When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

Jerry Lewis

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Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.

Joe Torre

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I have found that people who really want to work at 'Saturday Night Live' and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny - but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it's kind of nice in that way - there's a lot of people who say, 'I just always wanted to do this, and now I'm doing it.'

John Mulaney

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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

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Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

Michael Imperioli

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My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Alvin Adams

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I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

Statik Selektah

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What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

Toni Collette

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I told everyone that acting's for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

Judi Shekoni

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It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

Chris Lilley

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At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts.

Christian Scott

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