Derek Waters Quotes
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
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What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.
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We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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Many problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn't know how to do it. Fixing inner-city schools, reducing obesity, creating peace in the Middle East are just a few examples.
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I'm a comedy snob, and I never want anything that I do to get old.
