Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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My favorite thing about motherhood is that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.
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I've always loved playing live shows. I love traveling, seeing the country. I've made a lot of lifelong friends on the road at shows. It's so neat to see that so many of our fans have become friends. There are these nice little groups of "X People" everywhere.
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I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.
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I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
