Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
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Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.
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I think that's the biggest misconception - that in order for me to be sexy I have to make sure my boobs are out.
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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
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There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.
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Love is easily killed.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion; the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street.
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A good laugh is the best pesticide.
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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving.
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The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.
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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.
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The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.
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I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams less than two pounds. I have a very heroic birth story.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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I think Vince helped us out a lot. The defense has to be very leery of his attacking ability. When he was in the game, it seemed like the defense played a little loose.
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I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.
