William Devane Quotes
I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I can't go past without going into. I just can't resist lovely stationery.
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I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.
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To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
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We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
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Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.
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I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.
