Derek Theler Quotes
I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did my Highers, and then I was like, 'Oh, I think I'm going to apply myself and surprise everyone.'
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Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
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I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
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And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.
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I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.
