Derek Walcott Quotes
I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.
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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
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'Spectator Books' is presented by the genial Sam Leith. Leith has a little catch in his delivery that quickly becomes addictive. It's things like this that give podcasts their charm.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
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I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.
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If I went to a regular job, if I was a secretary or something, I'd want to look good. I'd dress up for that part.
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I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.
