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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Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.
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' for price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.
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I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, 'Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed.' If he is ashamed of anything he is ashamed of being ashamed. Whoso worketh in Me sineth not. Whoso confesseth Me and feareth Me, shall have eternal life. Whoso will hear the wisdom of the Father must dwell deep, and abide at home, and be at unity with himself.
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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.
