Dean Devlin Quotes
I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.
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We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.
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I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
