Eric Dickerson Quotes
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'
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But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones – that's inspiring to me.
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It is Earlier Than We Think.
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Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
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Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.
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That whole concept of 'I want to really go after people' - I don't understand that. Is it a roast, or is it an awards show?
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I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
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I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
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We never do the same set twice.
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
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I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.
