Dickey Betts Quotes
In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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It's been an interesting progression, going from soap to a sitcom with 'How I Met Your Mother' and now being a series regular on 'Homeland.'
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.
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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
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I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
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When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston.
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In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.
