Esi Edugyan Quotes
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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Okay, I’m going to go –- now, the one thing I’m going to do is I’m going to go boy, girl, boy, girl to make sure that it’s fair, because one thing I didn’t say in my initial speech is societies that are most successful also treat their women and girls with respect. Otherwise, they won’t be successful.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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England become a feeble-lighted Moon of America…
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We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
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I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
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Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.
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I've always wanted to act since I was little.
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Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.
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I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.
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The secret to my success is persistence.
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We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent itself to other professional bodies and with central government.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
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To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
