Jack McDevitt Quotes
'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
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Put out great music, and that's that.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
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You love who you love, and I can't help that I like guys.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
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Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.
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Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.
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All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
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'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'
