Jack McDevitt Quotes
So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?
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The U.S. is a mere pup tent of a civilization. We’ve got two hundred years of stupidity behind us and we think we’re right up there with everyone else who’s been doing it for thousands of years.
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Literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
