Bill Dixon Quotes
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.
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Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.
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My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.
