Barry Levinson Quotes

You have to do a version of somebody that's the essence of Paterno. I think that's what Al is so great at. You have to create a man, a life, and the emotions that go with it. He's truly brilliant.

Barry Levinson

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LifeGreatManThinkYouCreate

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

John Lasseter

MeStoryShortDirectorShort Films

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

Michael Gough

WorkEndBackActorOutDonkey

New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.

John Updike

LiveNew YorkYouNewSoviet Union

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Stanley Crouch

FatherRacismPeopleListeningYou

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Rita Mae Brown

DecisionWrongEvenAnyFollows

The average person - if you had a situation that hit your family and you needed to do something, you would not just go and take a vacation, or you would not do something that's not related to the task at hand. But in Washington, that just seems to be par for the course.

Ron DeSantis

FamilyVacationYouSituationPerson

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

Romeo Santos

LifeDoorArtistPersonalCloseHe

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.

Mo Ibrahim

DrivePoliticalInvestmentAfrica

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

Loretta Lynn

MusicBestThinkPrideCountryBeen

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

Jared Cohen

TechnologyGovernmentWorldBetter

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Dick Gregory

WorkDanceLawBlackStandYou

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.

Colin Morgan

GoodQualitySacrificeThinkChoose

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