Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Leadership

• America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Opportunity
  • Failure
  • Risks

• Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Action
  • Simple
  • Information

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • People
  • World
  • Myself

• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Air
  • Take
  • Sides

• I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • You
  • Know
  • Car

• How sweet it is!

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • How

• I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • College
  • Working

• I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • Best
  • Morning

• We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Want
  • Start

• When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Emotional

• If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Home

• The day Trump got elected, I got off social media.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Trump

• One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Book

• In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • School
  • Attention
  • College

• Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Responsibility