Derek Jacobi quote: "It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in ...
DEREK JACOBI

One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it w...
DEREK JACOBI

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But,...
DEREK JACOBI

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I'...
DEREK JACOBI

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from...
DEREK JACOBI

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people...
DEREK JACOBI

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into thos...
DEREK JACOBI

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on...
DEREK JACOBI

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only int...
DEREK JACOBI

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a c...
DEREK JACOBI

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've ...
DEREK JACOBI

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applie...
DEREK JACOBI

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered ov...
DEREK JACOBI

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time ...
DEREK JACOBI

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that the...
DEREK JACOBI

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our chil...
DEREK JACOBI

What I hope (readers) take from the book is the things that are good for them and have a good time w...
DANA JACOBI

From the '80 to the '90s, the olive oil industry spent a fortune to get the word out.
DANA JACOBI

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is go...
FRIEDRICH H. JACOBI

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
DEREK JETER

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.
BO DEREK

For a long time, I wanted children. When I was about 30 or 32, I really thought about it.
BO DEREK

I think we all have this image that we're going to be the hold-out and show what 51 really looks...
BO DEREK

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suff...
BO DEREK

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often he...
BO DEREK

I have never dated. I have no experience. It's terrible, and I'm scared to death of it, too,...
BO DEREK

We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much ...
BO DEREK

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pi...
BO DEREK

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but ...
BO DEREK

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and...
BO DEREK

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses...
BO DEREK

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really...
BO DEREK

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend t...
BO DEREK

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
BO DEREK

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expressio...
BO DEREK

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when...
BO DEREK

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me...
BO DEREK

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always exp...
BO DEREK

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
BO DEREK

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never h...
BO DEREK

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. Al...
BO DEREK

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to...
BO DEREK

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work hard...
DEREK JETER

I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find ...
DEREK BLASBERG

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
DEREK BOK

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get ...
DEREK SIVERS

I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchs...
DEREK BLASBERG

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just ...
DEREK LANDY

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content wi...
DEREK JETER

When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments....
DEREK CIANFRANCE

Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
father’s other brother, a horr...
DEREK LANDY

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of...
DEREK JARMAN

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.
DEREK LANDY

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
DEREK LANDY

mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves."
"Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?"
DEREK LANDY

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hun...
DEREK LANDY

At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of ...
DEREK WALL

I read; I travel; I become
DEREK WALCOTT

Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly lit...
DEREK LANDY

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
DEREK LANDY

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your se...
DEREK JARMAN

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the ...
DEREK WALCOTT

How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requ...
DEREK WALL

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
DEREK JARMAN

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its ...
DEREK WALCOTT

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
DEREK WALCOTT

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surf...
DEREK JARMAN

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
DEREK BOK

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
DEREK WALCOTT

The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malprac...
DEREK JARMAN

One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flower...
DEREK JARMAN

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...
DEREK JARMAN

An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
BO DEREK

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average
DEREK WALCOTT

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
DEREK BOK

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Har...
DEREK BOK

I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects ou...
DEREK BOK

Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's somethi...
DEREK JETER

For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doin...
DEREK JETER

Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important cours...
DEREK BOK

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.
DEREK JETER

I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medica...
DEREK THELER

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
DEREK JETER

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
DEREK JETER

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business,...
DEREK JETER

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sou...
DEREK WALCOTT

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what comm...
DEREK BOK

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ...
DEREK WALCOTT

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
DEREK WALCOTT

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
DEREK WALCOTT

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
DEREK WALCOTT

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins t...
DEREK WALCOTT

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...
DEREK WALCOTT

I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music,...
DEREK HOUGH

It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want ...
DEREK HOUGH

Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby.
"Can it do any tricks yet?"
"I'm sti...
DEREK LANDY

I had an uneventful few days," it told her. "The most exciting thing was an hour-long lecture from t...
DEREK LANDY

The door handle turned. Someone knocked, and a man's voice called, "Uh, hello?"
Valkyrie looked...
DEREK LANDY

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have...
DEREK BOK

Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's......
DEREK CIANFRANCE

When I grew up, a director was Cecil B DeMille, a guy sitting down with a megaphone speaking. He was...
DEREK CIANFRANCE

My older brother gave me a cassette tape of Mr. Bungle, and I couldn't stop listening to it. I u...
DEREK CIANFRANCE

I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go som...
DEREK JETER

The man had a smooth voice, like velvet. “I’m Detective Inspector Me. Unusual name, I know. My f...
DEREK LANDY

The key for me is really just to stay in a child-like state in the rehearsal studio. I'm really ...
DEREK HOUGH

I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what i...
DEREK JETER

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.
DEREK WALCOTT

Don’t kill me,” he sobbed as he lay there. “Oh God, please don’t kill me.”
“If you ...
DEREK LANDY

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.
DEREK LANDY

Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream...
DEREK LANDY

Valkyrie patted Fletcher’s arm. “Don’t worry,” she said. “If the bad man comes, I’ll pro...
DEREK LANDY

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have ...
DEREK JETER

I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for b...
DEREK HOUGH

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet ...
DEREK JETER

You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always s...
DEREK JETER

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen i...
DEREK WALCOTT

I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with...
DEREK JETER

I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to ...
DEREK CIANFRANCE

I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the ...
DEREK THELER

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid befo...
DEREK JETER

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. ...
DEREK BOK

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relev...
DEREK BOK

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your...
DEREK JETER

Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I'd be pretty satisfied with my c...
DEREK DROUIN

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, l...
DEREK WALCOTT

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my fi...
DEREK MAGYAR

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another ...
DEREK FISHER

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. ...
DEREK CIANFRANCE

Gracious ignored him. "A farmer's daughter, she was, though back then every girl was a farmer's daug...
DEREK LANDY

If he can't get to the clock, any idea how we deal with this lot?"
"With great care," Donegan s...
DEREK LANDY

I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and...
DEREK HOUGH

But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat c...
DEREK LANDY

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make r...
DEREK BOK

Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I...
DEREK LANDY

Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing?
"Not really," he sa...
DEREK LANDY

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests ...
DEREK BOK

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to...
DEREK BOK

My character is an agoraphobic. She is afraid to leave her home or wherever her safe place is and in...
BO DEREK

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected th...
BO DEREK

It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise t...
BO DEREK

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so ...
BO DEREK

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had a...
BO DEREK

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
BO DEREK

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I ...
BO DEREK

"10" was amazing! I had no career before "10" and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much ...
BO DEREK

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your se...
DEREK JARMAN

I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this perso...
DEREK JETER

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distract...
DEREK JETER

I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I d...
DEREK BOK

That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty big h...
DEREK AVERY

Our success will depend on how fast the juniors and sophomores can adjust to the varsity game. We ha...
DEREK AVERY

He's not only big and strong, he's got moves. They were just better than we were tonight. They're go...
DEREK AVERY

Getting the wing back going may be key. We've been rotating some guys there and will continue to do ...
DEREK AVERY

He's a big kid. We have to be able to wrap up and gang tackle. We have to be ready for a physical ga...
DEREK AVERY

Their quarterback can run and throw well. They have an end that has speed and their halfback is 215 ...
DEREK AVERY

We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we...
DEREK AVERY

We're delighted with the quality of all submissions. We are committed to publishing as many new voic...
DEREK ARMSTRONG

I like it better than running because running kills my knees. It's just fun to get up in the mountai...
DEREK ARMSTRONG

They got a good hockey team over there and they battle hard every night. It's nice to get an extra p...
DEREK ARMSTRONG

It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one p...
DEREK ARMSTRONG

It's a terrible way to lose. You get down 5-4 with a minute left and score a goal. That's a good way...
DEREK ARMSTRONG

The big thing about (Cline's) teams is it starts with the offensive line, but when I think about the...
DEREK ANDERSON

I knew it was the end of the game and that's what you have to do to win. You don't stop playing unti...
DEREK ANDERSON

The kid is unbelievable, ... I've never seen anything like it, in the NFL, or whatever.
DEREK ANDERSON

The kid is unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it, in the NFL, or whatever.
DEREK ANDERSON

That's when Mike asked if I'd throw. I've been under the weather, but then I thought I'd better help...
DEREK ANDERSON

There have been a couple times when it was a Monday morning quarterback-type thing. Things where I w...
DEREK ANDERSON

The big thing about (Cline's) teams is it starts with the offensive line, but when I think about the...
DEREK ANDERSON

I don't know why I'm not playing. I'm frustrated. I got in shape. I didn't go on the (two-game) trip...
DEREK ANDERSON

I got kicked on the inside at the end of the game in Portland. It was a bone bruise. It was real puf...
DEREK ANDERSON

It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially i...
DEREK ANDERSON

It's just a blessing to be back for another year.
DEREK AMBROSE

A lot of people want to continue life in New Orleans because they love it.
DEREK AMBROSE

It was a big help. I was very appreciative of everything I received.
DEREK AMBROSE

My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.
DEREK AMBROSE

I like tying our hooks, ... I learned it today. He (Broughton) tells us how to cast. You can't cast ...
DEREK ALLEN

I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, reall...
DEREK ALLEN

They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They tol...
DEREK ALLEN

Obviously, Nate is important and we'll see what happens there, but we think people will fill the spa...
DEREK ALLEN

We've got a tough team,
DEREK ALLEN

I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me. Playing in the SEC, you've got to ...
DEREK ABNEY

I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me, ... Playing in the SEC, you've got...
DEREK ABNEY

Everyone was encouraging to each other, ... It was more of a 'team' kind of thing; it wasn't like a ...
DEREK ABNEY

My parents are trying to not show their emotions, but I know they're getting really excited.
DEREK ABNEY

[The deadline] came when I was preparing for the Scouting Combine. But it's no big deal; I can take ...
DEREK ABNEY

Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken ...
DEREK ABNEY

Everyone was encouraging to each other. It was more of a 'team' kind of thing; it wasn't like a tryo...
DEREK ABNEY

I want to hang my hat on my speed. I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And off the field I want the ...
DEREK ABNEY

I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And off the field I want ...
DEREK ABNEY

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!
DEREK JARMAN

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's ...
DEREK LUKE

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions...
DEREK JETER

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has...
DEREK BOK

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

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It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

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