William Devane Quotes
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I was a tomboy.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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Golf is played with the arms.
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I love shopping! It's my release sometimes.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
