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Derek Walcott Quotes

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Trying Never Write Greatest English

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

Money Struggle School People Think

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

Music Tough Actor Reaction Being

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Maxwell Anderson

Easy Look Liberty Nobody Will Get

I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

Michael Bloomberg

Leadership Good Ideas Believe Strong

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.

Sigourney Weaver

Father Space Mind Picture Alien See

Came to acting pretty late. It looked wonderful, but I guess I was intimidated by my father. I look a bit like him, and he was so much bigger than life and so great, it took me a bit longer than most people to have enough confidence in myself.

Life Father Confidence Great Myself

Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.

Diane von Furstenberg

Everyone Prince Knows Married Then

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

Habit Now Many Getting Times

Since my article in 'Women's Health' came out, I have had so many conversations with women about their own battles with cancer, and it feels so empowering to open up this dialogue and learn from each other.

Women Health Learn Open Battles Out

Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.

Home Place Relationships Need Happen

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

Family Faith Freedom Focus Stand Us

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.

History Mistakes Memory Know Human

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