Dickey Betts Quotes
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
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Nothing really scares me anymore.
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I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
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Pay attention to how we move things
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.
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The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
