Jack McDevitt Quotes
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.' Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.
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The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening around the world, we can also be watched.
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In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
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Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
