John Dickerson Quotes
When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I received free health care.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.
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My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.
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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.
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When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.
