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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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.
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I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
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I was this weird little bookish giant.
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You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft.
