Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."
Edwidge Danticat
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Gautam Gambhir
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
Ted Cruz
I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
Pat Boone
I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
Hailey Bieber
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Daisy Ashford
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Manish Dayal
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Gary Allan
For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it.
Martine McCutcheon
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
Peter Latham
Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."
Edwidge Danticat
