"I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen."

-- David Sedaris

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“I'm a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.”
“A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.”
“For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.”
“We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science”
“I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.”
“You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.”
“I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.”

Source : "Derek Luke: 'I was molested, and I have my own personal fight'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.
“An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the driving force in one's life. These recognitions seen in art are the difference between decent, extraordinary and great.”

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