"That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist."

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Edwidge Danticat

#Country Quotes #Political Quotes #News Quotes

“I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.”
“If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.”
“Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.”
“Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.”

Source : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press
“Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.”
“When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.”
“Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he was playing quick draw in the police station elevator and his gun accidentally discharged. The bullet ricocheted off the elevator wall and lodged in Gazarra's right buttock.”
“You can never forget the time you are living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time youâ€™re living in is the most important thing.”

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