Dean Devlin Quotes
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.
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I've always wrote off the demographic of superhero films because it's just not really something I can relate to.
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Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.
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A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware.
