Nia Long Quotes
When you have all the bells and whistles - you've got the big, fancy catering, you've got the big, fancy car service and the big, fancy trailer - it makes it very comfortable and everybody's making a lot of money. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to end up with a great film.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.
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I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.
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A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.
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When you have all the bells and whistles - you've got the big, fancy catering, you've got the big, fancy car service and the big, fancy trailer - it makes it very comfortable and everybody's making a lot of money. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to end up with a great film.
