Dean Devlin Quotes
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.
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In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.
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Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016
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Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.
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Cause all I know is we said helloAnd your eyes look like coming home.All I know is a simple name, everything has changed.All I know is we held the door,You'll be mine and I'll be yours.All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.
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Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
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That was my problem then and it's my problem now; I have a bad attitude. In a nutshell, I fear authority but at the same time I resent it - the authority and my own fear - so I rebel. And writing SF is a way to rebel. … SF is a rebellious art form and it needs writers and readers and bad attitudes - an attitude of 'Why?' or 'How come?' or 'Who says?'
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I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
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The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'
