Edwidge Danticat Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
Taylor Lautner -
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
Fetty Wap -
I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
Viggo Mortensen -
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker -
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Zadie Smith
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
Bebe Rexha -
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
Sam Childers -
It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
Walter Kerr -
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
Jack Schwartz -
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy -
I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
Imelda Marcos -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
Sam Brownback
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' workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings.'
David Harvey -
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
Christian Morgenstern -
I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.
Olafur Eliasson -
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine -
Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
Lorraine Hansberry -
Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
Edwidge Danticat