James Dickey Quotes
With the plane nowhere and her body taking by the throatThe undying cry of the void falling living beginning to be somethingThat no one has ever been and lived through screaming without enough air.
Quotes to Explore
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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If you underperform for your owners, eventually they pick up their bat and ball and go home.
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A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.
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I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.
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If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.
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With the plane nowhere and her body taking by the throatThe undying cry of the void falling living beginning to be somethingThat no one has ever been and lived through screaming without enough air.
