John Dickerson Quotes
You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.
Quotes to Explore
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
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I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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It's really great to see an actor find himself, in his sojourn.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
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You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.
