Edwidge Danticat Quotes
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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People hate searching.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.
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'SNL' has always been known for its ability to skewer politics, and the circus that was Palin's bid to be Vice President was ripe for parody.
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My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
