Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
-
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
-
I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
-
I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
-
I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
-
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
-
I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
-
You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
-
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
-
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
-
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
-
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
-
People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
-
I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
-
Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
-
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
-
Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
-
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
-
Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!
-
You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
-
The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.
-
There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.
-
The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
