Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes
I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.
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We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.
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I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.
