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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They were hunting in a place that rich people pay to hunt at, okay? They actually... they drive them to where the animals are! That is not fucking hunting! There's a fence around the place! Son of a bitch! They means they go, when they're tracking the deer, 'Oh, look, we got 'em in the corner!' They turned a petting zoo into Auschwitz!
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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I've learned how to adapt to different cultures and understand all different walks of life. I've also learned that confidence is key, even if you have to fake it at times. Fake it till you make it, as they say.
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I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.
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I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.
