Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
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I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
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I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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Certainly some hosts on Airbnb are opening up their spare bedrooms to meet new people; and some drivers use Uber to carpool with strangers for the companionship. But the most productive members of each community are professional operators, making available their homes or cars as a way to earn or supplement a living.
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The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.
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There are some things that a woman knows that she cannot tell even her family. It is part intuition and part self-preservation.
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At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.
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My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream.
