Jack McDevitt Quotes
He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.
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I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
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I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
