Derek Luke Quotes
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
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The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
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Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
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Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
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612. At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
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I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
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I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
