Edwidge Danticat Quotes
The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.
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Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.
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Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.
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I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.
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Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.
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The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.
