James Dickey Quotes
Dust fanned in scraped puffs from the earthBetween his arms, and blood turned his face inside out,To demonstrate its supplenessOf veins, as he perfected his role.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
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In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.
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God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.
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'Am I correct in assuming that I address Lord Arthur?' 'Yes, I'm Arthur.' Emelena mumbled something that Arthur correctly thought was about expecting him to be taller, more impressive, have lightning bolts coming out of his eyes, and so on.
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which bloody misbegotten Card takes the liberty of recasting in his own insane tongue. As the bloody bog-rat's just done.
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225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.
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Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'
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Hundreds of people are undergoing gene therapy today. There are no known neurological issues.
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If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead.
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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
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A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
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I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.
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Dust fanned in scraped puffs from the earthBetween his arms, and blood turned his face inside out,To demonstrate its supplenessOf veins, as he perfected his role.
