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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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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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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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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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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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
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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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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river - but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself - a thing that went on caring.
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I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.
