Derek Walcott Quotes
I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,I had a sound colonial education,I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I'm not graceful.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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I had opportunities to be a lot more successful, but for some reason or other - the way I was particularly genetically wired - I turned down a lot of opportunities.
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I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,I had a sound colonial education,I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.
