Nia Long Quotes
All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
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There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
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People know me for my love of food, but I have so much more I want to share. Our show's going to be all about taking a bigger bite out of life. I want people to see themselves in this show because life is full of messes and successes, and getting there is half the fun.
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.
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I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.
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My children haven't even seen most of my movies.
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I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
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Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
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Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.
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The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
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Lukewarm people think about life on earth much more often than eternity in heaven.
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career.
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God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
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If we can find anybody that's experienced and wants to come on board, we'd more than happy to have them now. Right now, I think most will come out of the group that's going to be in class next week.
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All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.
