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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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 -
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 -
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 -
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
T. B. Joshua -
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 -
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
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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 -
I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
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 -
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 -
We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
Xavier Niel -
I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
Candace Bushnell
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A great laptop running the new kinds of user interfaces and apps that people now love on phones and tablets would be a big, exciting event that would help seal the deal. But there hasn't yet been a product that emphatically suggests the era of the traditional PC is fading.
Walt Mossberg -
Always before in moments of crisis I called on that power we call God to help me through. This time, having lost faith in others and my faith in myself, I had lost my hope in God too. Now that hope returned. I really believed that He hadn't wanted me to die.
Lana Turner -
He expected to have only one clear shot at the assorted joys of living, and he had no intention of risking it to meet someone else’s misconceived expectations.
Jack McDevitt -
I'll always be a fan of ol' stray dogs and guitars playin'.One room churches, back road walks and front porch swingin'.Sunset skies, bonfire nights, I love the simple things.That's how I'll always be.
Tim McGraw -
We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
Colum McCann -
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Mark Akenside
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Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.
Donatella Versace -
Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.
Charles B. Rangel -
If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.
Jil Sander -
My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.
Lois Greenfield -
Persistence is self-discipline in action.
Brian Tracy -
Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe