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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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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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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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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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
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With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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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.
