Nia Long Quotes
I learned there's a tremendous amount of sisterhood among Muslim women, which I thought was really beautiful.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
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I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
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You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.
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We want more opportunities for women's players throughout the world.
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My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.
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I learned there's a tremendous amount of sisterhood among Muslim women, which I thought was really beautiful.
