Derek Hough Quotes
The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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I don't care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I'm going to treat everybody the same - with respect.
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It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.
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A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really goofy and really silly and crazy. If I get too serious, I start hitting a wall.
