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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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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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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'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.
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Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.
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People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.
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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.
