Derek Walcott Quotes
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
Naomi Watts
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
Kate Flannery
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
Patricia Cornwell
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I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.
Karan Johar
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
Malorie Blackman
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It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.
Hank Azaria
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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
Pat Conroy
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I'm not going to disappear.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.
Carl Jung
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Rod privately suspected the Scots studied their speech off duty so they’d be unintelligible to the rest of humanity.
Larry Niven
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Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'
Marcus Brigstocke
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
W. H. Auden
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
Babasaheb
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
Kevyn Aucoin
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A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.
Derek Walcott
