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 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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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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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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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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
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I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.
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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
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He was a decent enough guy, but he was always at his worst when he was trying to be sincere.
