Edwidge Danticat Quotes
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!Edwidge Danticat
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
Larry David -
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel Gompers -
I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
Canelo Alvarez -
Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
Fiona McIntosh -
I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
Bart Stupak -
If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
Victoria Justice
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
Nas -
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid -
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
Carine Roitfeld -
Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
Pat Robertson -
Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
Jack Dangermond -
I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
Iggy Pop
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
Cam -
A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
Rakul Preet Singh -
Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
Kate Christensen -
I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
Gal Gadot -
Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
Ted Yoho -
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando
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Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.
Bennett Miller -
What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.
El DeBarge DeBarge -
Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.
John McCain -
When Andy Kaufman performed, he was not just trying to be funny. He was playing with the notion of what it means to try to be funny, of what it means to be an audience expecting somebody to be funny. He was doing a dance and playing a game.
James Murphy -
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
Edwidge Danticat