Nia Long Quotes

I'm more of a short-hair girl; short hair is a lot more low-maintenance than long hair. And when you're in front of camera every day and your hair is being flatironed and blow-dried it's easier to have a weave so you don't damage your own hair.

Nia Long

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Night
  • Worry
  • Wind

• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Identity
  • Equality
  • Blow

• The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hair

• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Hair

• When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Proud

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Quality

• When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Me
  • Person
  • Blow

• People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Dark
  • Hair

• We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Wind
  • Blow
  • Desert

• And you can't go, 'There's a hair in my Jell-O. I'd like to send this back. Can I see the cook, please?' The cook is a big dude named Bubba Joe.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Hair
  • Cook
  • Dude

• Finding a store that sells synthetic hair in Kigali is easier than locating a Starbucks in New York City without Google Maps.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • City
  • Hair

• Any major hair change comes with unpredictable and often unfiltered reactions.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Hair

• It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Single
  • Blow
  • Lion

• It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • People
  • Up
  • Hair

• I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Mother
  • Growing
  • Hair

• I want Violet to be proud of every little thing that is her - her hair, her body. We're all different, and from early on, I've always said she has a very confident personality, and I want her to maintain that.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Different
  • She
  • Proud

• Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Character
  • Color

• Picture what others wish to be, not what they may be now.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • May
  • Wish
  • Picture

• I'm more of a short-hair girl; short hair is a lot more low-maintenance than long hair. And when you're in front of camera every day and your hair is being flatironed and blow-dried it's easier to have a weave so you don't damage your own hair.

  

  Nia Long
  • Hair
  • Blow
  • Cameras