Barry Levinson Quotes

It gets harder and harder to make movies about human beings. These movies are like an endangered species. Everything is 'simplify, simplify' now. How many movies have sub-plots anymore?

Barry Levinson

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NowMoviesHumanEverythingSimplify

I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.

Jennifer Garner

SleepEndChoiceEarringsSometimes

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

John Mayall

ArtSchoolPlayPianoEarLearned

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

Robert Lopez

FeelWriteSeenI Feel LikeOnly

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

Tom Hanks

ChangePerspectiveDoctorSayingBad

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

Rita Ora

PeoplePersonKnowSome PeopleJust

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.

Marvin Ammori

WisdomInnovationLawNewSeemUs

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.

Michael Polanyi

LightMoneyExerciseInformation

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.

Lois Lowry

MeShowing UpWantOutUpFiction

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Joyce Meyer

LifeGodTruthEyesTimeChildhood

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.

Joshua Oppenheimer

PastRunWillNeverBordersUp

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer

FearReflectionI AmDownWallMore

The media cause more problems than they do good.

Chris Kyle

GoodProblemsMediaMoreThanCause

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