Dean Devlin Quotes
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
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Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.
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I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
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Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?
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I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.
