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Barry Levinson Quotes

My advice is that it's easier to write than direct. If you have an interest in writing, write. You might as well start with yourself or some event you know well, and you need a point of view.

Barry Levinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: April 6, 1922

Topics

Yourself Writing Start Advice View

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

John Adams

Politics Woman You Write Must Word

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

John Locke

Character Color Moral Take Us Like

Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of everything from the sciences to the arts.

Angela Rye

Beautiful Black Rich Know Everything

I think it's very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything's going to be all right, even when you're not sure it is.

Angelina Jolie

Think You Know Important Cry Need

All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.

Steven Seagal

Control You Situation Done Sometimes

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

Rose George

Everything Port Modern Crushing

My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.

Mary Beard

Good Mother Past People Me World

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Marvin Olasky

Good Humility More Prudence Harm

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.

Michael Specter

Advertising Better Magic Role Model

A lot of shows, things will just simmer and simmer and maybe never explode into the open, or only risk exploding into the open when it's clear that the series has gotten to its endgame. So I'm always impressed - but not surprised - when 'Scandal' just completely goes for it.

Joshua Malina

Moment Job Me Now West Something

There comes a time when you have to put forth the action and actually see whether you're really just talking to promote yourself, just to sell yourself, or to build your confidence or build confidence around you... or are you the real deal?

Deontay Wilder

Confidence Time Yourself Action You

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.

DeRay Mckesson

Struggle Black White Dangerous Know