Derek Kilmer Quotes
I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
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I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.
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I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
