Edwidge Danticat Quotes

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

Edwidge Danticat

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• I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Paper
  • Shower

• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Experience
  • Issue
  • U.S.

• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Own
  • Price
  • My Own

• What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Angst

• 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • God
  • Alone

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Woman

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • World
  • Experience
  • Dream

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Strange
  • Possibility

• I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

  

  George Burns
  • People
  • Live
  • Age

• The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.

  

  Peter Morgan

• My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I would have done terribly if I'd have got that job at sixteen.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Real
  • Done
  • Job

• People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Country
  • Haiti