Derek Walcott Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Camille Paglia
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
Pat Summitt
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
Caitlin Doughty
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
Fat Joe
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
Bebe Neuwirth
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Ken Follett
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
David Mamet
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I'm a dedicated father - a hopeless, dedicated father. I mean, I am dork dad. I am just - I love my children. I have kids - you know, Joey's 30-something, and then I have all the way down to 4 years old, believe it or not. At my age, five kids.
Joe Piscopo
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'Fifty years,' I hackneyed, 'is a long time.' 'Not when you’re looking back at them,' she said. 'You wonder how they vanished so quickly.'
Isaac Asimov
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The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.
Derek Walcott