Dean Devlin Quotes
There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.
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It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.
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There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.
