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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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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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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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.
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The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens.
Colson Whitehead -
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
