Derek Blasberg Quotes
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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No man fails who does his best.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I'm very loyal to my south fans and the industry there. So, it's hard for me leave all the love, respect, and admiration and shift base here. I'm a Mumbai girl and have lived here for most of my life. At the same time, I've spent 10 years of my life in the South and feel like a south Indian at heart.
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Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
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The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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I think I can change the game.
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I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
