Derek Blasberg Quotes
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
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Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.
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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!
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'Well,' he said. 'Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.'
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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
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Every match that I have, I always feel like I'm more nervous than the last one.
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I think the best advice I would give young artists is to always be working on your craft, because there are so many people out there with a dream similar to yours, a whole lot more than when I started.
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I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.
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There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.
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I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.
