Edwidge Danticat Quotes
You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Edwidge Danticat
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
Kate Winslet
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
P. C. Cast
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye West
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
Kate Burton
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
Zhou Xun
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
Mallory Ortberg
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
Malin Akerman
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I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.
Zooey Deschanel
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Of course, some people call me one of the most well-networked people in the world, but I am a very unsocial person - I never go to a cocktail party; I am never seen at a charity event. I have one exception: I'm a member of the board for one of the big European music festivals, so I participate, with pleasure, in concerts.
Klaus Schwab
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From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.
Liu Yang
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There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
Laura Prepon
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Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.
John Shimkus
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
J. G. Ballard
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You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Edwidge Danticat
