Edwidge Danticat Quotes

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • People
  • Know
  • Day

• Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Bond

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Express

• 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.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Long
  • May

• Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • American
  • Alone
  • Movies

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• 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.

  

  Dana Hill
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• 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.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Graduation

• 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.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Song

• I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Life
  • Country
  • Regret

• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • True
  • Help
  • Feeling

• Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Always
  • Paper
  • Listens

• When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.

  

  Dean Karnazes
  • Country
  • Running
  • Snow

• I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Country
  • Future
  • Wind