Ricky Dillard Quotes
We were very radical on our entrance to the industry. People kind of shunned it, said it’s too much, he’s doing too much. I’m very charismatic. I’m very animated. I dance a lot. I praise God the way I do, and people weren’t really receiving that. They were looking at me - like, this ain’t real. He’s phony. He’s playing, or that’s too much…a little different from the conventional.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
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To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.
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It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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We were very radical on our entrance to the industry. People kind of shunned it, said it’s too much, he’s doing too much. I’m very charismatic. I’m very animated. I dance a lot. I praise God the way I do, and people weren’t really receiving that. They were looking at me - like, this ain’t real. He’s phony. He’s playing, or that’s too much…a little different from the conventional.
