Derek Magyar Quotes
There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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There is a reactionary conservative side of classical music, which is not the most exciting side of it. The side that draws me in, there's a real encouragement of risk-taking, going back to masters of that tradition like Beethoven and Bartok and Stravinsky.
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I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
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I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.
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Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.
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There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
