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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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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Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
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Acting didn't come and just clip me on the nose.
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In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The Sims,' a life-simulation game, and 'StarCraft,' a science-fiction game.
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
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There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
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I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
