William Devane Quotes

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

William Devane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1940

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GoodChildrenChildReadingDoing

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Michael Hayden

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My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

Michael Caine

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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

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I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave up that thesis, and wrote one on her instead. When I learned that Georgiana's great-nephews supported opposite sides in the American Civil War, I knew this would be the perfect sequel.

Amanda Foreman

HistoryWarAmericanPerfectLetters

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

Steve Winwood

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I've learned to laugh most of the negativity off.

Tomi Lahren

LaughNegativityOffMostLearned

I'm always optimistic.

Robbie Robertson

AlwaysOptimistic

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.

Robert Wagner

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At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well.

Mats Sundin

YourselfPressureYouLevelWell

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

Michael Morpurgo

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One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.

Lukas Forchhammer

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