Jack McDevitt Quotes
Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.
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It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.
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Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.
