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'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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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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Working with Will Smith was one of the highlights of my career. He is so talented and has a tremendous work ethic. We are still friends, and I reach out to him and his partner to pitch ideas. He loves my mother. In fact, my mother was his son Jaden's acting coach for the movie 'Pursuit of Happiness.'
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Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
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I'm a musicologist, and I know that this is very rare. As a matter of fact, it's unique in the history of jazz, this group that I'm performing with, this trio. No other trio does these kind of things. I mean, it's an experience you will only hear with this group. It's a one-time experience in life, if you don't come back and hear us again, which would be different anyway.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.
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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.
