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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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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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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Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.
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Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
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I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.
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People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
