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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• 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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• I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

  

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• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

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• From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

  

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• Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

  

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• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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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