Nia Long Quotes
I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious.' And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want a cross with me at all times.
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By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.
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As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
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It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons.
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Music that I really love and believe in and think is extraordinarily honest and beautiful doesn't always become popular. (Oct, 1994 interview).
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Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.
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Before I met him, I wasted so much time. I was just annoying and narcissistic, and smelled bad. He’s protective without being possessive, passionate without needing to show his temper. I’m sorry, I know I sound insipid.
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I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: 'take off your pants'; 'dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep'; etc.
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I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.
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You've got to be in your kitchens, or it all falls apart.
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I think when you write a script, you can't help but pick up on what is happening in the press at that time and what's going on in the newspapers, so you reflect on that and you feed it into your stories in some way.
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I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.
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But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.
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We have a lot of work we need to do to make sure all of our children have a better understanding of this diverse and wonderful and beautiful world.
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I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
