Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
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Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
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I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
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For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
