R.A. Dickey Quotes
I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.
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I actually love shopping in vintage shops. What I do with the high street, I buy it, then keep it for a while and then wear it when everyone's not wearing it. So I do that: stock up, then keep it hidden!
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I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
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I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
