Nia Long Quotes

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

Nia Long

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• I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Fans
  • Try
  • Will

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • American
  • Proud

• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Short

• You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Artist
  • Body
  • Yourself

• I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Woman
  • Theatre

• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Lord
  • Pray
  • Appointment

• Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Fixing
  • Problem solving
  • Rhode Island

• Speculation regarding a ECB rate hike is likely to start building further, especially coming on top of the more hawkish comments we have been seeing from the ECB officials, so that will be euro supportive.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Regarding
  • Euro Supportive

• Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Reflection
  • Qualities
  • Deception

• Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

  

  Sophocles
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Save

• Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Paper

• And then Phil walked into the room. I'm not certain exactly what he'd prepared -- I think it was a scenario involving a death in the family -- but he was a mess, bright red, sobbing, you couldn't even understand what he was saying half the time. But it was powerful. He was this 16-year-old ex-jock, and I remember very distinctly feeling that if I was going to act, I'd have to get serious about it. Because this guy completely gets it.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Family
  • Death
  • Scenario

• I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sound
  • Pool
  • Devices

• After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Fear
  • Drums

• I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years.

  

  Ethan Suplee
  • Show
  • I Want

• If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

  

  Epictetus
  • Music
  • Words
  • Wish

• I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

  

  Nia Long
  • Compromise