Dean Devlin Quotes

I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.

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• 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Important
  • Family
  • Experience

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Choice

• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Start

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Nations
  • Exhausted

• I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Me
  • Single
  • Pleasure

• The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Home
  • Health
  • Best

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Technology
  • Always

• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Happy
  • Never
  • Childhood

• If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Me
  • Effort
  • Problems

• I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Hope

• When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Silly

• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  

  Max Lucado

• Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Sad

• Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely we would have produced a tasteless, publicity‐seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star. Ha! Look at how wrong we were. It turns out, that is exactly what we needed.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Reality
  • Perfect
  • Star

• I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Star