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I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.

~Deobia Oparei

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I'm looking forward to the fighting with no headgear - I'm jealous. I kind of want to go back to the Olympics to experience no headgear.

~Deontay Wilder

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Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience.

~Deray Mckesson

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I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.

~Derek Bok

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Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: According Because Bible Child Childhood Deeply Experience Extraordinary Gospel Had Ignored Images Inside Made Matthew Me Realise Rooted Saw Seeing Stories Sunk

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When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments.' But 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' is essentially a documentary about Jesus. It made me aware of how real life and personal experience can create more breathtaking, sensitive cinema than more sophisticated techniques.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: About According Aware Bible Breathtaking Cinema Commandments Create Documentary Epics Essentially Experience Gospel How Imagine Jesus Life Like Made Matthew Me More Movies People Personal Personal Experience Real Real Life Sensitive Sophisticated Sweeping Techniques Ten Ten Commandments Than Think

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When we make these movies, you sign up for an experience. It's not just, 'Action! Cut!' There's not that safety in it. It's kind of a dangerous place to be. I mean, it is safe, but it gets personal. It's no longer about saying the lines. It's about really having an experience.

~Derek Cianfrance

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High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.

~Derek Drouin

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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.

~Derek Walcott

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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

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