Edwidge Danticat Quotes

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

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• I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.

  

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• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

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• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

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• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

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• I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

  

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• In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

  

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• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  

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• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

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• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

  

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• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

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• TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

  

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

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• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

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• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

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• The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

  

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• Once we begin to make our churches safety zones in a military-style approach, we're going to lose something of the character of our places of worship.

  

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• When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.

  

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• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

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• With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

  

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• May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

  

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• We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Time
  • Fiction
  • Storyteller