Derek Walcott Quotes
There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.
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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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And you kissed me shy as though I'd never been your lover
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Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.
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I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.
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There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.
