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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We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.
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Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.
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We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see...
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So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.
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I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.
