Derek Walcott Quotes

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Jimmy Carter

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I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.

Andrew Luck

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But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

John Landis

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Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

Matt LeBlanc

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Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

Michael Gambon

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In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

Stephanie Coontz

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University was a chance to people-watch and to mix with people from all various walks of life, which as an actor is a great experience because you get to observe people.

Tom Riley

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This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

Robin Tunney

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They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Robert Toombs

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There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

Mohammad bin Salman

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I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

Judy Blume

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I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

Douglas Booth

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