Edna Lewis Quotes
The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
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I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.
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Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
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That's insanity. We must be good all the time.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.
