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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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.
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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 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.
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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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The computer is a moron.
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I think about things to put them in a place where I don't have to think about them anymore. Say if I had a child with a really bad mom, I would have to think more than if I had a child with a good mom. I'm just doing my homework early.
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Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.
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'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.
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If you seek to correct a subordinate’s overall behavior or performance, start by telling them what they do well, then tell them where they need to improve.
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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.
