Edwidge Danticat Quotes
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I find the business world hard.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
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Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.
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It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
