Edwidge Danticat Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Writers are so important.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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There's no blame on the coaches for that aspect of it.
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Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty.
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I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.
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When it came to country, I loved the stories.
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I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.
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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
