Nell Newman Quotes
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
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I've always felt that technology companies have disrespected the content creation process, and the content creation people disrespect technology.
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For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
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I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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To all those who've tried to belong, and just didn't fit in you are loved. To all those who've tried to stand out and be heard you're admired. To all those who've tried to be themselves, only to be shut down you are supported. To all those who've tried to kill themselves because life's unfairyoure NOT alone. Love your friends, love your enemies, because in the end, they'll all be kissing your ass when you make it.
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It is my job to step into different characters.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.
