James Dickey Quotes
I saw for a blazing momentThe great grassy world from both sides,Man and beast in the round of their need.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
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Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
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The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.
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We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not allow us to develop the full range of our relations. Therefore, we will naturally strive to sign this treaty.
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I saw for a blazing momentThe great grassy world from both sides,Man and beast in the round of their need.
