Nia Long Quotes
I think that if something matters to you, and is important to you, then you give it the attention and energy it deserves. So, I don't look upon it as a price, but as an opportunity to influence the community in a healthy way.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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I feel like, throughout 'True Romance,' I was unsure of myself in terms of songwriting. Even though it was my voice, I feel there were a lot of other voices on that record, too.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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As a former governor, I am familiar with the challenge of balancing the immediate electricity and heating needs of our citizens with the long-term priority of ensuring that power comes from a diverse mix of energy sources that allows us flexibility as we fight the effects of climate change.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I think that if something matters to you, and is important to you, then you give it the attention and energy it deserves. So, I don't look upon it as a price, but as an opportunity to influence the community in a healthy way.
