Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'
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Whenever you have to do a photo shoot with a woman, there is this weird competition. They need to prove something. They need to play games - maybe unconsciously - but women are so sensitive, and people call me more masculine sometimes.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
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It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
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Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'
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My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.
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America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.
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I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
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I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.
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The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.
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There are so many things that go into a surgical study.
