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Derek Luke

"I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later."

Source : "Shadow & Act One On One w/ Derek Luke On His Work In ‘Sparkle’ & Upcoming Projects". Shadow & Act Interview, www.indiewire.com. August 09, 2012.

Derek Luke

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #Simple Quotes

“There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.”
“There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.”
“You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.”
“Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.”
“As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.”
“You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.”
“Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.”
“Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.”

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