Derek Walcott Quotes
I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.
Derek Walcott
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
Jack McBrayer
Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
Rachel Weisz
My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
Kangana Ranaut
In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
Beck
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
Barry Mann
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso
I don't feel famous.
Uma Thurman
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
Yaya Toure
I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
Calvin Johnson
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Ida B. Wells
When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
Dakota Fanning
There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes.
Jonny Greenwood
Radiohead
I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
George Cukor
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton
One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
Gavin Bryars
I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.
Derek Walcott
