Derek Walcott Quotes

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryWriteAlwaysKnewWanted

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

Joel Edgerton

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High levels of stress can lead to weakened immunity, rendering animals much more susceptible to disease. This makes the average poultry factory farm a hotbed for outbreaks of avian flu.

Michael Greger

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My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

Merry Clayton

MotherChildPatientGene

My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I've got Arabic music in my blood.

Stewart Copeland

MusicBloodGotArabic

I do like reality TV like 'The Voice.' I enjoyed working there every single day. It was amazing.

Monica

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I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.

Jason Momoa

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From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Jones Very

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Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

Joseph Brant

ValueKingHardLittleOurMuch

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Diane Keaton

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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Donald Rumsfeld

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In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.

Tim Huelskamp

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