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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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.
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There are some people who fit into categories very well. But then there are a lot who don't.
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If you want to get a facelift, get a facelift. Don't sit there and talk about why you got it because of the pressure.
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I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.
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Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst.
