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.
BO DEREKMy mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can’t believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.
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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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There’s an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
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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 love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
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Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.
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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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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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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’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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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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I hate to run. I never, ever run.
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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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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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