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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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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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
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I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.
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Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.
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Models can be people, too. But the only way to do that is to kind of step up and keep doing new things that no one has thought of, from new websites to new blogs, a newscast, doing speeches, talking to kids. It kind of opens a new headline every time: 'Oh, a model hasn't done this before; a model hasn't done that before.'
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What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.
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It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
