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.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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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.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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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.
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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.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.
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Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.
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Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.
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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.
