Derek Walcott Quotes
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
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I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
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I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that.
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The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.
