Dorian Missick Quotes
My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.
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I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
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Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like.
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I truly believe that everyone can be creative; you just need to find your form of expression.
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My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
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My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.
