Dean Devlin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
-
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
-
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
-
I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
-
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
-
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
-
'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
-
From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
-
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
-
The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
-
Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
-
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
-
The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
-
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
-
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
-
Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
-
When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
-
I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
-
'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to describe what I've written without sounding delusional or boring, so I'll just say they are stories about growing up and the pleasures and agonies of having a family, a body, and a home.
-
What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
-
Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.
-
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
-
I'm a very happy man. I've seen how bad it can get, and I'm sure it could get worse if I let it, but all that made me appreciate where I am. Plus, I'm married to a very hot woman who got away.
-
Most young American actors feel like teenagers.
