Derek Walcott Quotes
The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.
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I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.
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I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.
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The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.
