Derek Walcott Quotes
My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.
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One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
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When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.
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My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.
