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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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
Aharon Appelfeld
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They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and spurred away across the flat lands towards the mountains... And it may even be that they found their Kingdom.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
Caroline Stevermer
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Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.
Saraya-Jade Bevis
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We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
Marilyn Monroe
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I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.
Derek Walcott
