R.A. Dickey Quotes
I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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There is always pressure in football.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I can't miss an episode of 'The Apprentice'. It is car-crash T.V. Sometimes I find myself hiding behind a cushion.
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Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.
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We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
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The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
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Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!
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I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.
