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.
W. H. Auden -
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.
A. S. Byatt -
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
Idina Menzel -
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.
Laura Moser -
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin -
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Patricia Highsmith -
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.
Rachel Hunter -
I'm not averse to telling people off.
Damian Lewis -
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.
Adam Braun -
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.
Ian Mckellen
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Satire doesn't effect change.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Nancy Kress -
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.
Camille Paglia -
Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
Patrick Wilson -
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.
Maggie Hassan -
I have had to learn about saying no.
Jaclyn Smith
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
Isaac D'Israeli -
I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.
Bill Hader -
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
Lady Caroline Lamb -
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
Oliver Goldsmith -
From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
Emile Zola -
I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.
Dean Devlin