Edwidge Danticat Quotes
You have also at the same time Castro and the revolution being the glue that held the United States together with a lot of these dictators.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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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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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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TV loves to bring in affairs - as soon as you have a relationship, let's screw it up.
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I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.
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We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.
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My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.
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I really like brunettes.
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You have also at the same time Castro and the revolution being the glue that held the United States together with a lot of these dictators.
