Derek Jeter Quotes
Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.
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The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
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I like forming connections with people who follow me on social media because they make me feel like everything is worth it.
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Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.
