Derek Walcott Quotes
No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, … and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the market, the harbour’s blue, the barracks. So much to do still, all of it praise.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I studied Morse code.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
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I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
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Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.
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No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, … and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the market, the harbour’s blue, the barracks. So much to do still, all of it praise.
