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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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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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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I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.
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'If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.'
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I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.
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I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
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There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.
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You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.
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I'm really pale.
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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.
