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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I'd rather die than let somebody get the better of me.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
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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.
