James Dickey Quotes
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.
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I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.
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You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day.
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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.
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