Derek Hough Quotes
I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.
Quotes to Explore
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.
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In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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I would be lying if I said Starz doesn't have a reputation.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
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A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.
