"Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person."

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Source : "Derek Luke: 'I was molested, and I have my own personal fight'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

Derek Luke

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“To me [my marriage to Kim Kardashian] was real. I would never go through something or do something that wasn't real or I didn't believe in, so I can really only speak for myself in terms of that.”
“All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.”
“If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.”
“Girls, do yourself a favor, don't ever bring us anywhere to pick anything out - ever, ever. You don't need us there.”
“For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.Â As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer!Â They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.”
“Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have seen life as it really is-ravishingly, ecstatically, madly beautiful, and filled to overflowing with a wild joy, and a value unspeakable.”
“I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.”
“Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.”

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