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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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.
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A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.
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It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality.
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I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.
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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
