Dwayne Hickman Quotes
I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Truth is the best defense.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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The truth sustains me.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I wrote the book 'Grace, Gold & Glory' because I had to overcome many challenges and hardships. I wanted to share my story to let anyone facing hardships know that your dream is still possible.
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I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
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I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.
