Derek Walcott Quotes

I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island - French, Creole, and English - but my education is in English.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
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  • Birth: January 23, 1930

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I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career.

Jerry Weintraub

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The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.

Jesse Ball

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The most profound things are inexpressible.

Jenny Holzer

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I think the evening wear criteria is that they want to walk into the room and get that 'wow' factor.

Jenny Packham

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'Peter Pan' makes 'Black Watch' and 'The Bacchae' look like a walk in the park.

John Tiffany

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I'm not accepting of whiners.

Tom Watson

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There are a lot of young kids serving in Washington, D.C.: kids that are smart, hard-working, but they've never farmed. They've never run a business. They've never been in the private sector. They went from high school into college and right into Washington, D.C.

Ron Johnson

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My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

Jason Dohring

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My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Brendon Urie

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You have different stages in your career where you have different things to prove. And early on, like most people who move to Nashville, I wanted to prove that I belonged here, that I belonged in this format, that I had a love for it.

Brad Paisley

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In the South, people in power feel they don't have to answer to no one.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Alice McDermott

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