Derek Walcott Quotes
The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.
Derek Walcott
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
Nargis Fakhri
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
Tavi Gevinson
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass
It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
Adam Peaty
I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
Larry Brown
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou
While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
Mahesh Babu
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
Francesca Annis
I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
Action Bronson
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.
Flannery O'Connor
I initially became a trainer in 2002 to help people shape their bodies, to help them look the way they wanted to look. This would reflect the way I was living. I was focusing on the exterior. Then in 2003/4, I had a paradigm shift. I started a business for bariatric patients, pre- and post-gastric bypass.
Jessie Pavelka
People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
Betty Smith
'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'
Lawyer
Federal election laws bar candidates from the 'personal use' of campaign donations - a ban meant to stop candidates from buying things unrelated to their runs for office. If a purchase is a result of campaign activity, the government allows it.
David Fahrenthold
The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.
Derek Walcott
