Dean Devlin quote: "I'll never forget when the movie started and the spaceship that kept going and going. By the time that thing passed overhead, I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."

I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'
DEAN DEVLIN

I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.
DEAN DEVLIN

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first...
DEAN DEVLIN

Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote ...
DEAN DEVLIN

If you ask someone to name a real movie star, most of them would be old. We don't have enough real m...
DEAN DEVLIN

I've wanted to do something on the Bermuda Triangle since I was in high school.
DEAN DEVLIN

Your reach must exceed your grasp, otherwise what is heaven for?
DEAN DEVLIN

Hey look! It's Michelle Shocked!
DEAN DEVLIN

I'm a kid in a candy story, ... And I'm living out a major fantasy.
DEAN DEVLIN

I think every year the standard gets raised and you have to top it,
DEAN DEVLIN

We became a little obsessed with what we could do with these new toys, ... We didn't give the attent...
DEAN DEVLIN

We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a...
DEAN DEVLIN

When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio...
DEAN DEVLIN

There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Cana...
DEAN DEVLIN

'Stargate' has always had this empty hole. When we made the first one, we always intended on...
DEAN DEVLIN

Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmas...
DEAN DEVLIN

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, a...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed ...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt agai...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacl...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Any team always needs a good leader. I'd like everybody to play well. If one person or a couple peop...
BRIAN DEVLIN

He doesn't like to yell at people. He's very calm and non-confrontational. He likes to stay out of t...
BRIAN DEVLIN

He likes to talk out there, he's real intense. I knew he was going to do something stupid, and he di...
BRIAN DEVLIN

[The Patriots] are a much more physical team then we've seen. We just have to keep the ball low, and...
BRIAN DEVLIN

It has been a problem in the past. But we have to keep playing well and keep winning.
BRIAN DEVLIN

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
BURNADETTE DEVLIN

Tom is not meeting with any one specific person tomorrow. He looks forward to addressing members of ...
KIMBERLY DEVLIN

Yucca Mountain isn't tunnels - it's a mine. Mines fall apart. It's damp. It's rock. There's nothing ...
SALLY DEVLIN

I love to stare at people. I like staring at beautiful things. I guess it's better this way. Cause w...
DEVLIN PAJARON

Nothing has changed and this was and remains a straightforward and transparent real estate transacti...
KIMBERLY DEVLIN

...[T]he three greatest works are those of

I don't think they were getting nervous. We put more pressure on them than we did in the first half ...
JAMES DEVLIN

I'm lucky I didn't get squashed. I felt like an ant out there a couple of times.
JAMES DEVLIN

I have seen your lips crumble down cities and dreams I'd gladly have you burn down mine
DEVLIN PAJARON

Intelligence without common sense is like a rainbow with no curve. It's abnormal.
DEVLIN PAJARON

I don't understand the purpose of meeting people who'll soon just be strangers.
DEVLIN PAJARON

Wealthy is the man who gazes upon the shine his mountain of gold Brave is the man who saw his last s...
DEVLIN PAJARON

Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not di...
VICTOR DEVLIN

The distance between us is either the universe or a single 'Yes'
DEVLIN PAJARON

Sooner or later, you'll get tired of chasing butterflies.
DEVLIN PAJARON

What we asked them to design was completely impossible. What we got works better than we could have ...
ELLEN DEVLIN

We become a more disciplined and better company because of this tool at the front end.
ELLEN DEVLIN

We had to retrain [them] that this is an important part of your business. If Japan doesn't know what...
ELLEN DEVLIN

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about wome...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allo...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each o...
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

He's surfed this beach many times, ... But he said, 'I don't want to be famous for drowning out ther...
JAMES DEVLIN

I've come here often and I've never seen anything like this,
JAMES DEVLIN

I'm not convinced it's going to happen yet, ... We've been a longtime contractor in the city of Peta...
JAMES DEVLIN

I'm not intimidated at all.
JAMES DEVLIN

Waste Management has proven its commitment to developing innovative ways to handle solid waste and r...
JAMES DEVLIN

The first half was offense, the second half was defense.
JAMES DEVLIN

In a company of 50,000 employees, it is a great honor to receive this distinction. Five years ago, W...
JAMES DEVLIN

It's taken a lot of pressure off me. Instead of other teams looking for me to score, they have to de...
JAMES DEVLIN

We have to play our pace and not the other team's.
JAMES DEVLIN

In the works of

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mi...
JOSEPH DEVLIN

No single state, and no community within any state, has reached a full level of preparedness. The ac...
LEAH DEVLIN

Now is not the time to be backing up.
LEAH DEVLIN

It's about early detection and rapid response. The threats are not going away.
LEAH DEVLIN

We are far better prepared to deal effectively with a public-health threat than we were in 2001, a t...
LEAH DEVLIN

We are not credible year after year when we cannot get our priority populations vaccinated.
LEAH DEVLIN

He was just a quiet guy and one of those people you would least suspect.
JUDY DEVLIN

Brian Kemp is an internationally-experienced veteran with nearly four decades of engineering and bus...
MICHAEL DEVLIN

I'm committed to Miami 100 percent. Other schools called me, but Miami's where I want to be. I feel ...
PAT DEVLIN

There were no expectations for them. It was definitely a learning experience.
SLOAN DEVLIN

The most important thing for a judge is-curiously enough-judgment.
LORD PATRICK DEVLIN

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
JIMMY DEAN

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.
DEAN BAKOPOULOS

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
JIMMY DEAN

I'm limitless, spontaneous and fearless. I can take direction and also give it. And I don't ...
ESTER DEAN

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or s...
DEAN KOONTZ

An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN

The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN

Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
HOWARD DEAN

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some rig...
HOWARD DEAN

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. ...
HOWARD DEAN

Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in ...
PAMELA DEAN

I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
PAMELA DEAN

I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculi...
PAMELA DEAN

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
PAMELA DEAN

I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his ...
PAMELA DEAN

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created...
HOWARD DEAN

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.
DEAN KARNAZES

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and va...
HOWARD DEAN

Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face...
DEAN ORNISH

Intimacy and community buffer stress.
DEAN ORNISH

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
DEAN KOONTZ

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk th...
DEAN RUSK

I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food....
ESTER DEAN

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
DEAN SMITH

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done i...
JIMMY DEAN

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
JIMMY DEAN

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can...
JIMMY DEAN

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hand...
JIMMY DEAN

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik...
JIMMY DEAN

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as...
JIMMY DEAN

When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat,...
JIMMY DEAN

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, ...
JIMMY DEAN

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
JIMMY DEAN

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
JIMMY DEAN

Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
JIMMY DEAN

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair...
DEAN AMBROSE

The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the ear...
DEAN JONES

We went to Denmark twice and Germany and also to the Canary Isles one year. I remember once when we ...
DIXIE DEAN

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?.
JIMMY DEAN

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
DEAN ACHESON

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is th...
DEAN ACHESON

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making thems...
DEAN ACHESON

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from t...
DEAN ACHESON

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON

If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I'll be wearing my motorcycle boots.
DEAN WINTERS

WWE is like showbiz boot camp.
DEAN AMBROSE

It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN

Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines.. totals can apparently be manipulated from out...
HOWARD DEAN

We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
DEAN RUSK

A little dark chocolate in small amounts often helps lift me out of those blue moments. When I walk ...
DEAN ORNISH

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditatio...
DEAN KOONTZ

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've alw...
DEAN KOONTZ

Magnesium deficiency can produce symptoms of anxiety or depression, including muscle weakness, fatig...
CAROLYN DEAN

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because...
DEAN KOONTZ

the worst happens when you least expect it
DEAN KOONTZ

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disag...
DEAN KOONTZ

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.
JAMES DEAN

It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.
DIZZY DEAN

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
DEAN SMITH

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
DEAN ACHESON

I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so...
CAROLEE DEAN

Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, u...
DEAN KOONTZ

One can only tolerate the absolute idiocy of Man for so long before bringing out the bat.
DEAN HALE

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.
DEAN KOONTZ

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much ...
DEAN KOONTZ

Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
DEAN MCLAUGHLIN

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
DEAN RUSK

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're ...
DEAN MARTIN

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
DEAN MARTIN

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
JAMES DEAN

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors...
DEAN SMITH

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, y...
DEAN SMITH

Every eye sees its own special vision,
every ear hears a most different song.
In each man's ...
DEAN KOONTZ

When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed an...
DEAN MARTIN

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there wi...
DEAN KOONTZ

Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives un...
DEAN KOONTZ

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a...
JOHN DEAN

A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
DEAN ACHESON

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that lit...
DEAN BRIGGS

The great corrupter of public man is the ego....Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from...
DEAN ACHESON

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument ...
DEAN ACHESON

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
DEAN ACHESON

You see, you all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don't think it's worth a damn...
DEAN ACHESON

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
DEAN ACHESON

The future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON

Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.
DEAN CAIN

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
DEAN ACHESON

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be e...
DEAN ACHESON

I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull.
JEROME DEAN

Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.
DEAN KARNAZES

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument ...
DEAN ACHESON

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, ...
DEAN SMITH

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, onl...
DEAN KOONTZ

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means t...
DEAN RUSK

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
JAMES DEAN

It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since...
JAMES DEAN

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
JAMES DEAN

We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
DEAN RUSK

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree
DEAN ACHESON

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is...
DEAN ACHESON

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowi...
DEAN KOONTZ

I'll never forget when the movie started and the spaceship that kept going and going. By the time that thing passed overhead, I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

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I'll never forget when the movie started and the spaceship that kept going and going. By the time that thing passed overhead, I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

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