Derek Waters Quotes
I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I never said I was a genius.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
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When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'
