Jack McDevitt Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.
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My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.
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The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.
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We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
