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.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Done
  • Flying
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Cooking
  • Sauce
  • Tricky

• People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Different
  • High

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Time
  • Good
  • Girl

• I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

  

  Zach Braff
  • You
  • Rest
  • Leaving

• But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Beginning
  • Path
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Imagination
  • Human
  • Race

• I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Roles
  • Warrior
  • Pursuing

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Proud
  • Right

• 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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Right
  • Experiences

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Happens
  • Tell
  • Coaches

• Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

  

  James Patterson
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Happens
  • Battle
  • Between

• Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

  

  Jack Germond
  • She
  • Humor
  • Group

• I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball.

  

  Drake
  • Nice
  • Basketball

• The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • Help
  • Game

• In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

  

  Dean Devlin