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.Edwidge Danticat
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
Zooey Deschanel -
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!
Rachael Ray -
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.
Dacre Montgomery -
I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Damian Lewis -
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.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Gary Wright
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. Giger -
Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
Fran Tarkenton -
I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
Aaron Paul -
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.
Carly Fiorina -
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
Irvine Welsh -
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
Zig Ziglar
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quentin Crisp -
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
Barry Mann -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde -
The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
Camila Alves -
I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.
Jennifer Hyman -
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
Mark Rylance -
It's a stereotype that Jews run Hollywood. Guess what? It's true. Jews do run Hollywood. It's a stereotype that many Jews are wealthy. Guess what? Many Jews are wealthy. And there's nothing objectionable in the image. What's unflattering about Jews rising out of oppression and poverty and making it to big success?
Bryan Fogel -
I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories.
Louise Nurding -
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.
Edwidge Danticat