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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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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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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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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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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The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
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It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
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What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.
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I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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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.
