Quotes by Dan Levy - Page 2

My mother was in labour for two full days before having me on a sunny August afternoon. She went into labour on the 7th, and I chose to make my big entrance on the 9th.
Dan Levy /
Afternoon
August
Labour
Mother
Sunny
Days
Chose
Me Mother Big
Full
Entrance
Having
She
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My mom asked me one day at lunch in a very lovely and respectful way. I was finally comfortable enough to say yes, I was gay, and it really was never talked about again.
Dan Levy /
Comfortable
Gay
Lovely
Lunch
One Day
Respectful
Mom Enough Me
Mom Me Day
Again
Asked
Finally
Mom Gay Me
Talked
Yes
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Entertainment seems to be the only arena where children who pursue the work of their parents, which is an inherently natural thing to do, is met with a lot of skepticism.
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Arena
Entertainment
Pursue
Skepticism
Work Children Parents
Inherently
Met
Natural Thing
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The best TV that I watch, I always feel safe when I'm watching it. And that could be like 'Homeland' or 'The Americans'; by 'safety,' I mean the show knows its parameters.
Dan Levy /
Homeland
Parameters
Safe
Best Feel Always
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In many ways, the Internet is about diversification, and yet, in the wrong hands, the digital world can use those very examples to reinforce the narrowest of perspectives.
Dan Levy /
Digital
Digital World
Diversification
Internet
Wrong
Examples
Perspectives
Reinforce
Ways
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I had always been scared of the unknown, and I think it had a lot to do with a lack of self-confidence (and wearing thick, dark-rimmed glasses before they were considered cool).
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Cool
Glasses
Scared
Thick
Unknown
Considered
Wearing
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It's quite common for a television show to start off as one thing and end up as something completely different. There are so many cooks in the kitchen - the network, the studio.
Dan Levy /
Cooks
Television Show
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When I was working at MTV, people would e-mail me asking where I bought my frames, and I always felt a little uneasy telling a teenager to go out and pick up a $400 pair of glasses.
Dan Levy /
Glasses
Mtv
Teenager
Uneasy
Always Where Me
Bought
Me People Always
Frames
Me Glasses People
Pair
Pick
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In an age where overindulgence seems to be the norm, I can't help but look back and feel thankful that my parents chose to hold out on giving me everything that I wanted growing up.
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Thankful
Norm
Chose
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I remember, before I started high school, I was really intrigued by the Buddy Holly/James Dean style of glasses. This was a long, long time before they were sold at every Urban Outfitters.
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Buddy
Dean
Glasses
High School
Intrigued
Long Time
Remember
School
Urban
Time Long Remember
High
Sold
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I hated working red carpets, I hated the whole celebrity interview process. I just realized I'd rather be the person somebody wanted to ask questions to than the person asking the questions.
Dan Levy /
Hated
Interview
Red Carpets
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Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.
Dan Levy /
Cents
Constructive
Majority
Offering
Preaching
Unwelcome
Life Thinking My Life
Crossing
Conflicts
Line
Result
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I always try, if I can, to travel before I start a writing project. For me, travelling is my education. It inspires me, and it clears my mind and allows me to come back with a cleansed palate.
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Travel
Palate
Cleansed
Project
Inspires
Travelling
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I think because there is the constant looming threat of nepotism and judgment, I really tried to separate what I was doing at MTV, my auditions, anything I was doing creatively, from my family.
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Auditions
Constant
Judgment
Looming
Mtv
Nepotism
Threat
Creatively
Tried
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Despite probably needing one, I don't have a therapist. Why spend the money on my mental health when I can do far more productive things such as purchase iPhone apps and pay off parking tickets?
Dan Levy /
Health
Apps
Despite
Iphone
Mental Health
Parking
Pay
Tickets
Why
Far
Off
Spend
Mental
Needing
Purchase
Therapist
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When I feel like treating myself, I'll either turn to food or clothes. Bad food. Expensive clothes. Ironically, I'm usually rewarding myself for a solid week of healthy eating or a nice paycheque.
Dan Levy /
Expensive
Expensive Clothes
Ironically
Solid
Rewarding
Treating
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Growing up, my height was faithfully tracked from infancy to my late teens on the door frame of my mom's office - the only place in my family's home in Toronto where writing on the walls was encouraged.
Dan Levy /
Growing Up
Height
Infancy
Late
Office
Teens
Toronto
Family Home Mom
Door
Encouraged
Faithfully
Frame
Late Teens
Walls
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It's pretty incredible to think that someone who once dreamed of a life in fashion could go from reading 'Vogue' during recess in elementary school to eventually seeing his designs grace those very pages.
Dan Levy /
Elementary School
Fashion
Grace
Pages
Reading
Recess
Seeing
Designs
Dreamed
Elementary
Eventually
Incredible
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I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes to intimacy between, in my case, two men. That's an insane conversation to be having.
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Insane
Intimacy
North America
Rooms
Conversations
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As a child, I seriously believed my family was going down the road to bankruptcy. I was denied virtually every popular trend, from heavily logoed Tommy Hilfiger windbreakers to amusement park season's passes.
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Amusement
Bankruptcy
Denied
Down The Road
Believed
Popular
Park
Passes
Season
Seriously
Trend
Tommy
Virtually
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My dad made a conscious choice to keep my family in Canada. I think he wanted us to have a pretty normal life and one that wasn't necessarily affected by the industry or all that comes with growing up in Hollywood.
Dan Levy /
Canada
Conscious
Normal Life
Life Family Dad
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In my head, I'm a purist that doesn't require anything but a group of good friends and a bottle of wine. In reality, I'm co-dependent on my iPhone and fully conscious of the fact that my attention span is corroding.
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Attention
Conscious
Iphone
Reality
Wine
Bottle
Fully
Good Friends
Group
Head
Require
Span
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I remember quite clearly a time when I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I was six, I was worry-free, and I aspired to be an actor-slash-pizza maker. To me, the decision was simple; that is what would make me happy.
Dan Levy /
Decision
Six
Life Time Me
Life Time Decision
Aspired
Clearly
Maker
Exactly
Exactly What
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Don't get me wrong: I'm a sucker for weddings. I'll get misty-eyed watching the union of two perfect strangers. But in some cases - and I need to stress some cases - I feel like we're getting blindsided by the spectacle of it all.
Dan Levy /
Cases
Perfect
Stress
Sucker
Union
Strangers
Spectacle
Weddings
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The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It was only in high school that ICQ - a prehistoric form of instant messaging - was first incorporated into my cultural vocabulary.
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Instant
Interaction
Jungle
Prehistoric
Social Interaction
Sole
Sticker
Vocabulary
School High School High
Incorporated
Messaging
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The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We will rationalize anything into an excuse to indulge in whatever it is that makes us feel temporarily satiated.
Dan Levy /
Truth
Built
Culture
Excuse
Indulge
Pleasure
Pursuit
Rationalize
Truth Is
Feel
Anything
Astray
Often
Whatever
Lead
Instinctive
Makes
Reward
System
Temporarily
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I will never have the willpower to completely swear off pizza or a good summer sale, but I'm working on realizing the difference between the occasional craving and the compulsion to mindlessly consume as a feeble means of self-medication.
Dan Levy /
Compulsion
Craving
Occasional
Pizza
Realizing
Summer
Swear
Willpower
Good Will Never
Between
Consume
Difference
Working
Feeble
Sale
Off
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After getting the job at MTV, the challenge was, 'How do I start my career as a television host without people holding my dad's career over my head?' It's a very easy thing for people to look to my dad and say, 'Well, he got his job because of this.'
Dan Levy /
Host
Mtv
Easy Thing
Holding
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When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own.
Dan Levy /
Birthday
Camps
Me Day People
Birthday Me Day
Month
Birthdays
Claim
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'Simply the Best' has always been one of my favourite songs and a song that I've always thought was far deeper than what you imagine it to be at first listen. I found the lyrics to be really, oddly beautiful, considering you rarely stop and think about them.
Dan Levy /
Considering
Deeper
Favourite
Found
Imagine
Song
Best Beautiful Always
Simply
Far
Lyrics
Oddly
Rarely
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Lauryn Hill quietly released 'Lose Myself' as part of the 'Surf's Up' motion picture soundtrack - shocking, I know. It's not only one of the best summer tracks you'll add to your catalogue: it's also one of the most honest and heartfelt songs she's has ever written.
Dan Levy /
Add
Heartfelt
Honest
Shocking
Summer
Surf
Best Myself Your
Picture
Catalogue
Lauryn Hill
Lose
Motion
Motion Picture
Quietly
Released
Soundtrack
Tracks
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There is a lot men don't know about women. And I'm not just talking about how you manage to leave the bathroom smelling like a tropical rainforest after you shower or how you're able to walk in shoes that rely on nothing more than the support of two five-inch toothpicks.
Dan Levy /
Bathroom
Manage
Rely
Shoes
Tropical
Men Women Walk
Women Men Walk
Shower
Smelling
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I like to refer to my small social circle as 'boutique.' And much like the hotels of the same ilk, my friends are all unique, high quality, and serve me good food. But more than that, they teach me things about the world and about myself that I couldn't learn anywhere else.
Dan Levy /
Friends
Quality
Good Food
Social
Teach
Unique
Much
Good Food World
Myself
Anywhere
Good Food Myself
Anywhere Else
Same
Circle
High
Else
Small
Hotels
Learn
Refer
Serve
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There was a time in my life when people called me 'Denim Dan.' I didn't like it. And fortunately for my self-esteem, it didn't stick for very long. I was 12, and I was given the name by my classmates after I showed up to the first day of school in - wait for it - triple denim.
Dan Levy /
Classmates
Self Esteem
Life Time Me
Life Time Long
Dan
Fortunately
Wait
Stick
Triple
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What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued soothsayer when it came to dispensing opinions to my friends about their life choices or relationships.
Dan Levy /
Choices
Clarity
Math
Skills
Considered
Life Science Great
Valued
Opinions
Relationships
Situations
Therefore
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It's that stubborn fixation on details that has invariably prevented me from getting excited about celebrating each passing year. Which is why my friends know that doing things such as throwing me surprise parties would only serve to surprise me with an overwhelming sense of panic and anxiety.
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Details
Overwhelming
Panic
Passing
Stubborn
Surprise
Throwing
Celebrating
Invariably
Parties
Serve
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My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.
Dan Levy /
Parenting
Mom
Growing Up
Hammered
Mom And Dad
Parent
Philosophy
Worst
Mom Experience Dad
Authorities
Confirm
Head
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To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually - a 'fade out' as I like to call it.
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Decision
Difficult
Distance
Prove
Troublesome
Act
Call
Create
Edit
Executed
Fade
Gradually
Properly
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There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their own. They thought they were their own, but they were essentially gifted this life by their parents. So they were spending money; they were going on trips - I guess, in a way, it is their life, but they didn't earn it.
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Commonality
Gifted
Private School
School
Spending
Spending Money
Earn
Essentially
Experiences
Guess
Parents
Private
Trips
Whose
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Valentine's Day is one of those tricky celebrations where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you love it, you're buying into a holiday created to sell greeting cards, bad bouquets, and shoddy love-themed stuffed animals. And if you're opposed to it, you're considered lonely and single and have clearly never had a valentine.
Dan Levy /
Valentine
Valentine's Day
Buying
Cards
Holiday
Lonely
Single
Tricky
Had
Animals
Considered
Love Valentine's Day Day
Never
Bad
Those
Bouquet
Celebrations
Clearly
Created
Day
Sell
Greeting
Opposed
Shoddy
Stuffed
Where
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