R.A. Dickey Quotes
I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
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I am very happy and thankful to be 'here' Switzerland and to remain. Here I can at least work a little on my good days, and be at peace among these simple, kindly people. In this solitude I have fought my way through to the possibility of continuing to live, even suffering so much. My time for circuses, 'cocottes' and company is over referring to his wild 'Brücke'-years in Berlin. I made what I could out of it, and I do not think it had been done in that way before. Otherwise there is nothing to link me with those 'événements'. During my 7 years in Berlin I let the whole essence of that kind of thing seep into me so thoroughly that I now know it back to front, and can leave it. Now I have other tasks, and they lie here. I cannot go down again into the throng. I am more than ever afraid of crowds. But more still, my work here is only at the beginning of its possibilities.
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Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
