Eric Dickerson Quotes
Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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When you get to a certain age, it's kind of the same thing. There's no new school to go to, no new teachers. There's some comfort in that.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.
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My son is the voice of 'The Lego Movie''s Duplo alien.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
