Madison Smartt Bell Quotes
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
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I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.
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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.
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I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of necessity to protect oneself, and are not continued but are instead converted into the greatest possible benefits for the subjects. Badly used are those cruelties which. although being few at the outset, grow with the passing time instead of disappearing. Those who follow the first method can remedy their condition with God and with men; the others cannot possibly survive.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
