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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I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.
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These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.
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I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
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Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
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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."
