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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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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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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What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
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I like my music to be like a buffet. If you don't like this plate, there's another one for you.
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I guess, being French, I love Hollywood.
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I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.
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There is something sadder to lose than life – the reason for living; Sadder than to lose one's possessions is to lose one's hope.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.
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I've heard from a couple of female officers, that they understand exactly what my character is going through, and that they really like the show.
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OK, go away, and I'll find someone who really wants to play for Australia.
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I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.
