Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
Quotes to Explore
-
Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
-
That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
-
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
-
I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
-
Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
-
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
-
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
-
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
-
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
-
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
-
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
-
Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.
-
I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.
-
It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.
-
I am the funniest woman that you've ever known. I am the dullest woman that you've ever known. I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known and you've never met anyone Who is as everything as I am sometimes.
-
That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She Kelly got the prince Rainier, I got the part.'
-
I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
-
I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
-
A good threat is worth a thousand tests.
-
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
-
Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.
-
I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.
-
I really like figure skating.
-
Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
