I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn’t unhappy when I was single, either.
BO DEREK10′ was amazing! I had no career before ’10’ and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
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It’s been very nice. I haven’t gotten out too much because we’ve been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I’ve had a good time.
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I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
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I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.
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I’m getting to the place where I can sort of go through airports now and there’s no hysteria. I can go places alone even. But at the same time, if you get in trouble, you can find somebody in your age group who might recognize you.
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I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it’s considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.
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It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.
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I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I’ve always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
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When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.
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It’s so easy to conform and to follow. It’s very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.
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I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.
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I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it’s dangerous now.
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Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.
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I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.
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I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.
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10′ was amazing! I had no career before ’10’ and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
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I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don’t have a single passport that doesn’t have extra pages on it.
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Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?
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In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don’t even belong to your parents. It’s an old Spanish law. It doesn’t require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.
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Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
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You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.
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Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing – it’s something so impersonal really.
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I hate to run. I never, ever run.
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There’s an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
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We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
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I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.
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I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We’ve never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
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