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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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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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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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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'Teen Vogue' fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don't have to choose.
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I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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The people I don't like to work with are people like me. I need people who can complement my skill set, people who can do the nitty gritty with me.
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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.
