Edwidge Danticat Quotes

Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

Edwidge Danticat

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Irish

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Piano
  • Started
  • Ukulele

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Think

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • God
  • Think
  • Name

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Before
  • Luxury
  • Printing

• To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Myself
  • Planning
  • Economic

• What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • War
  • Cold

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Commitment

• Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Present

• By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Lost

• God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.

  

  Claude Rains
  • God
  • Money
  • Sun

• Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Life
  • Child
  • Mask