Nia Long Quotes
I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.
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Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.
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The best way to minimize disagreement is to make sure that all the stakeholders are in the room.
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Science brings men nearer to God.
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A charming woman is a busy woman.
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We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.
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I'm always one time zone behind myself.
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I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.
