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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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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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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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
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I was just trying to say that it's unnecessary; you don't need to label yourself. I guess it came off the wrong way, because then everyone labelled me as gay. That's not what I was trying to say. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course!
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I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to.
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The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.
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I'm a deeply boring person in real life; I don't do any drinking and going out until four in the morning. I'll usually head straight home for a cup of tea.
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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.
