Jack McDevitt Quotes
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
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This is a very special atmosphere in the Big East. The people are right on top of the floor. It's not like the pro atmosphere you have at places like Madison Square Garden and the Meadowlands. This is the essence of college basketball.
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I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
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I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.
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You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
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Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.
