Derek Hough Quotes
I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and inspire me.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
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I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
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I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
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Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
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Book publishing was never a heaven 'run by editors', and it is by no means today a hell 'run by accountants.' If our 'sole interest' was 'instant profit,' not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn’t be in book publishing at all.
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Journalism is a good place for any writer to start - the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
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Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
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You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.
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There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.
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I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and inspire me.
