Nia Long Quotes
I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.
Quotes to Explore
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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There were times and you want to be free My love is growing stronger, as you become a habit to me. Oh I've been loving you a little too longI don't wanna stop now, oh. With you my life, Has been so wonderful. I can't stop now.
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Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
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The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
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I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one. … In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money. … the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.
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I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.
