Nia Long Quotes
Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.
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The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.
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After I built up a following on Instagram, I realized it's a good way to talk to your fans. I always try to keep the conversation going - they're really happy when that happens.
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There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
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To be honest I quit taking training and fighting so seriously and went back to living my life and having fun. I try to teach that to all the guys who come out here to train and live with me.
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Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.
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Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."
