Dickey Betts Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.
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The words walked right out of my mouth.
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Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
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It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
