Dean Devlin quote: "There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie."

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To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
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Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacl...
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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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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.
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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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I have seen your lips crumble down cities and dreams I'd gladly have you burn down mine
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Intelligence without common sense is like a rainbow with no curve. It's abnormal.
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I don't understand the purpose of meeting people who'll soon just be strangers.
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Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not di...
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The distance between us is either the universe or a single 'Yes'
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Sooner or later, you'll get tired of chasing butterflies.
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We become a more disciplined and better company because of this tool at the front end.
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We had to retrain [them] that this is an important part of your business. If Japan doesn't know what...
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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...
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To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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I'm not intimidated at all.
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We have to play our pace and not the other team's.
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It's about early detection and rapid response. The threats are not going away.
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LEAH DEVLIN

We are not credible year after year when we cannot get our priority populations vaccinated.
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I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
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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...
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An actor should be judged by his performance only.
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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...
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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.
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I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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PAMELA DEAN

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

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PAMELA DEAN

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created...
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Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.
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At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and va...
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Intimacy and community buffer stress.
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If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
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ESTER DEAN

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
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I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
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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

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JIMMY DEAN

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

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JIMMY DEAN

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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.
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Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
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I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair...
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The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the ear...
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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?.
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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.
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WWE is like showbiz boot camp.
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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.
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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

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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

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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

There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.

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Dean Devlin

There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.

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