Andrew Levitas quotes

“We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.”
-- Andrew Levitas

Source : "Andrew Levitas’ End of Life Lullaby". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2014.

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“I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.”
-- Andrew Levitas

Source : "Andrew Levitas’ End of Life Lullaby". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2014.

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“When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about me and my ideas. A lot of filmmakers don't have that benefit, so when they have their moment to let all that creativity out of them, it's all about them. It's their movie; it's their thing.”
-- Andrew Levitas

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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“I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.”
-- Andrew Levitas

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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“I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.”
-- Andrew Levitas

Source : "Andrew Levitas’ End of Life Lullaby". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2014.

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“In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.”

“If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.”

“I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.”

“The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.”

“Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.”

“I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.”

“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”

“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”

“Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.”

“I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.”