Nia Long Quotes
I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
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What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.
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Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.
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The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.
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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.
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I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.
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Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.
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Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
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Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.
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If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus.
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As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
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Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.
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I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.
