Jack McDevitt Quotes

'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'

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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.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Life
  • Day
  • Morning

• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Long
  • Success
  • Leadership

• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Long
  • Listening
  • Look

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Rich

• I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Potential

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• I've been loving music all my life.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Want
  • Maturity

• With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Long
  • Film
  • Doing

• I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Long
  • Team
  • Football

• I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Picture
  • Weird

• We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Individual

• Obviously, after 'The Matrix,' it was a case of, 'OK, I did that. What's next?' I mean, it's always like that, but more so this time. How do I change it up? How do I keep it interesting for myself?

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Father

• 'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Life
  • Long