William Devane Quotes
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix.
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I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.
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Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
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Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.
