Edwidge Danticat Quotes
The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
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One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.
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A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweetLessen like sound of friends’ departing feet;And Death is beautiful as feet of friendComing with welcome at our journey’s end.For me Fate gave, whate’er she else denied,A nature sloping to the southern side;I thank her for it, though when clouds ariseSuch natures double-darken gloomy skies.
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The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.
