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.Derek Walcott
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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.
Dana Carvey -
It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper -
My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
Sally Kirkland -
I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
Raghav Bahl -
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.
FKA twigs -
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
Kaley Cuoco -
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
Nat Friedman -
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.
Barry Jenkins -
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz -
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.
Yuna -
I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
Namie Amuro
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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.
Fran Lebowitz -
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.
Octavia Spencer -
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!
Zhang Yimou -
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann -
The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
Ian Lustick -
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
Dani Shapiro
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You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.
Lisa Ling -
Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.
Fanny Kemble -
I think I am feeling comfortable in Bollywood more than in Hollywood because I have spent more time here now and I am understanding a lot of things. I am feeling pretty good here. I really don't plan on running off anywhere.
Nargis Fakhri -
I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.
John Barrowman -
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.
Derek Walcott