Dean Devlin Quotes
We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
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I'm not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day.
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The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
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I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, they got me a tape recorder that I used to walk around my life with. And there was something about recording and then hearing myself back.
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We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.
