Derek Blasberg Quotes
I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
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Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
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Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.
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Actors don't have real value.
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A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
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I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.
