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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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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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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The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
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The women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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This is a very difficult conference. I don't think anyone in Louisville besides me knew that. Now they all know.
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Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
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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."
