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
Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.
Scott Pelley
I love playing Blair Cramer, and I'm thrilled to see what more they have in store for her. After playing this role for so many years, I still feel like there is so much about her that is still untold.
Kassie DePaiva
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.
Charles M. Blow
If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.
Constance Wu
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
