Dean Devlin Quotes
We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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What I do is I do my job.
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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I eat healthy, and I eat a lot.
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I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.
