Derek Walcott Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill.
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You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'
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I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.
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'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'
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To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.
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I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.
