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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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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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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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
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For me, when I grew up, I never really had an outlet when it came to my social surroundings. Even if I had a form of popularity, I felt like I was very limited.
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So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
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I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
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Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.
