Edwidge Danticat Quotes
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.
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If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.
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We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
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Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
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My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.
