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.

R.A. Dickey

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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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• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

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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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• The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.

  

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• I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch).

  

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• I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

  

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• Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.

  

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• It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.

  

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• I try to block a couple of hours of unscheduled time every day so that I can work on the day's most important projects.

  

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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.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Player