Derek Walcott Quotes

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
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• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

  

  Nate Silver
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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

  

  Naomi Judd
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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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• Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Should
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• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
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• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
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• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
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• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
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• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
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• I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
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  • Think

• Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

  

  Friedrich Engels
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• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  

  Adam Garcia
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• David Ayer is known for being a very serious filmmaker, but he has a very great sense of humor.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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• If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  • Respect

• The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.

  

  Ory Okolloh
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  • Together

• You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

  

  Derek Walcott
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