Dick York Quotes
My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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B is for bestseller.
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I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.
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If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace.
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
