Dean Devlin Quotes
In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.
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If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.
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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'
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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
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Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.
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If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.
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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
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This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.
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In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.
