Derek Walcott Quotes
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?
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Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street:Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
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It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
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Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.
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Everyone says to hydrate on the plane, but I don't.
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
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I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.
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You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.
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My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
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When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
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No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.
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I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn't satisfying me, things I was supposed to do for my career. I stopped and said, 'Let me get back to the basics.'
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At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
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The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
