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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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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I'm a fan of some horror. Some of the really corny b-horror movies I don't love so much, but 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite movies.
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I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.
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As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.
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I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
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You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.
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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
