Nia Long Quotes
I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell williams, so I'm really in great hands.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I am who I am.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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I wish I could score as many goals as I can in 'FIFA.'
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Growing up, I didn't really watch a lot of standup. I didn't know you could be a low-energy comedian. It was something I did daydream about, but in the way you daydream about becoming the president or something - it could never happen.
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Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
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Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.
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It's kind of like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.
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I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell williams, so I'm really in great hands.
