Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes
I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
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It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.
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Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.
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I love doing deals and operating companies.
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I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.
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I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.
