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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

I didn`t go to acting school, only to normal school. I`m not for acting schools because I suspect that the majority of the teachers are there because they can`t find work as actors or because they think they can teach people to act but haven`t had much experience themselves in the field. What I mean is that my skepticism derives from the fact that I believe that for an actor it`s much more important to learn with the audience . . . the audience is the real teacher and it`s the audience that has taught me what I know. The audience`s reaction tells me what I need to do, just as the audience`s reaction makes you into a first-rate star. It`s easy: the important thing is that a sufficient number of people, an audience, in a sufficient number of countries is willing to spend money to go see this actor. At this point the movie producers interfere and ask you to work on this or that film. And then one becomes an actor with international success depending on the public`s reaction.

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can`t even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn`t have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.