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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One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
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You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.
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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.
