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Dean Devlin Quotes

Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen.

Dean Devlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: August 27, 1962

Topics

Character You Know Him Out Cartoon

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

Joe Strummer

Good Book Think Thinking American

I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.

Jens Lekman

Writing Song Think Someone You Down

Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy.

Andrea Riseborough

Woman Red Transformation Long You

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

Michael Eisner

School Hide Place Graduate School

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

Aminatta Forna

Trust Childhood Country Way Lived

I grew up idolising Madhuri Dixit, though I wasn't a Hindi film buff. I had an academic upbringing, and movies were a rarity. I looked up to Madhuri because I loved dancing, and she's a fantastic dancer.

Amisha Patel

Loved Movies She Dancing Up Film

I don't raise my daughter differently than her twin brother, to the point where she only wanted to wear his clothes - sweatpants, baggy T-shirts, and high-tops - for a year straight. She claims it's because she needs to be 'comfortable and functional,' and who can blame her? I would wear a tracksuit seven out of seven days if I could.

Amanda de Cadenet

Daughter Brother Blame Clothes Year

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

Robert Carlyle

Character Moment Performance Look

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Rollo May

Relationship Care Matter Human State

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Women Technology Think Possible

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

Juan Goytisolo

Political Moral Social Motivated

That takes it out of you, throwing too many punches.

Joseph Parker

You Out Punches Many Takes Too