Derek Walcott Quotes

After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.

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've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

Joaquin Phoenix

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We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Jeremy Rifkin

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I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

Stewart Udall

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My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

Michael Pollan

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Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

Michael Moriarty

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And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

Mitt Romney

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I continued to protect him with my silence.

Joyce Maynard

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I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

Dougray Scott

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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Brian Eno

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There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.

Philip Schultz

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I am not brand conscious. I wear what suits me.

Suresh Raina

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I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

Seann William Scott

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