James Dickey Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
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I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.
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The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.
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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
