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 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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You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.
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Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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I don't really make a distinction because when I'm acting, I feel like an actor, and when I DJ, I feel like a DJ, and when I play the guitar, I feel like a guitar player. I don't know which I prefer. I think I just like to perform, in some way or another.
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I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.
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They are charged with trespassing, which means being on your own land when somebody else wants it.
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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
