Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.
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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.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.
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It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.
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I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.
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Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
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Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
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Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.
