R.A. Dickey Quotes
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
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There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
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I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
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I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?
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The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.
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Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.
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I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
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It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.
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The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft.
