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I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

~Derek Jeter

Topics: About Around Being Dance Enjoy Get Going Like Lot Me Music Out Really Shy Sing Takes

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The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee.

~Derek Jeter

Topics: Always Because Being Me Means Most Remembered Thing Wanted Yankee

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Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

~Derek Luke

Topics: About Anything Being Being Honest Confidence Denzel Denzel Washington Happened Honest Keeping Learned Performance True Washington You

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I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.

~Derek Sivers

Topics: About Arrangement Being Curious Fascinated Get Just Listen Long Lost Music Musician Out Problem Production Shut Stop The Problem With Whenever I Can

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I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I wound up taking a trip to Los Angeles and decided being an actor sounds pretty cool, too.

~Derek Theler

Topics: Actor Angeles Because Being Cool Decided Degree Field Getting Los Los Angeles Medical Medicine Nutrition Pretty Sounds Sports Taking Too Trip Up Wanted Work Wound

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The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Avoid Being He His People Pretending Speak Them Thing Voice Writer

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The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Absurd African Being Caribbean Chinese Division European Experience Only

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What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Another Being Dissolution Experience Feeling Frequent Happened Hill Life Sort Writer Younger

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I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Being Belonging Denies Deny Everything Great Hate Just Language Making Master Nonsense Outlet Shakespeare Thinking Touching Whether You

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I don't want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.

~Derek Waters

Topics: Able About Being Care Create Friends Labeled Main Main Thing One Thing Platform Thing Things Want Whatever I Care

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