Derek Walcott Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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I owe everything to France.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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But he understood that it is better to live to the very end of his time on Earth with a longing not for the past but for the dreams that have not yet come true - an Israel that is secure in a just and lasting peace with its neighbors.
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'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.
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There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
