Edwidge Danticat Quotes
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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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.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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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.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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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.
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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.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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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.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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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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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.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
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Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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Honestly, when I was a little girl, I would watch wrestling with my brother, like, all the time. The Ultimate Warrior was my favorite. I used the have the biggest crush on him!
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Basically our championship starts here. Fourteen races, not sixteen. It's not a comfortable position to be in, but that's the reality. The team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
