Edwidge Danticat Quotes
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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There is no truly global justice.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.
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I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.
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Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
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I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
