Edwidge Danticat Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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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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In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
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When they did the Olympics in Seoul - or elsewhere - didn't each host country try to show its greatness to the world viewing audience?
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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
