James Dickey Quotes
To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
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As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.
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For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.
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Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
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To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
