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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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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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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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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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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I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.
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I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'
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I love hats, especially when you have bad hair days.
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
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Now that man can fly through the air like a bird ... and swim in the sea like a fish, wouldn't it be wonderful if he could just walk the earth like a man?
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
