Dan Devine Quotes
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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God is everywhere.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
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Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of.
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To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
