William Devane Quotes

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

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• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Job
  • Wish
  • Day

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Myself
  • Write
  • Down

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Love
  • Parents

• I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • American
  • Think

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Voice

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Great
  • Give
  • Direction

• My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Speak

• I am an artist who works with Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Artist
  • Works
  • Lego

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • School
  • Hotel

• I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Interesting
  • Football
  • Basketball

• I'm not ashamed to say I fear something.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Fear

• Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?

  

  Cherie Blair
  • World
  • Important

• The KGB is by far the world's largest, the Israeli probably the best, and the Iranian and the South Korean the deadliest.

  

  John Stockwell
  • World

• The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Live
  • Political

• What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

  

  William Devane
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