Niecy Nash (Carol Denise) Quotes

I was always funny, but I didn't know being funny was a gift.

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• I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Couple
  • Feet
  • Disney

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Magic

• I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

  

  Florence Green
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Women
  • Future

• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Happy
  • Never
  • Childhood

• We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Business
  • Food
  • Attention

• Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • School
  • Money
  • Interesting

• If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Age
  • You

• 'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh

• As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Tea

• Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Rain

• Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade
  • Men

• I like NPR's podcasts because I can listen to those on the bus.

  

  Marley Dias

• I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris

• I've made it clear I like Chicago.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Chicago

• Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

  

  Alice Paul
  • Long
  • Women

• Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.

  

  Bret Stephens

• I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Economy

• I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Believe
  • Identity
  • Market

• I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Real
  • Character
  • Funny

• When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Why
  • Parents

• She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Idea

• I was always funny, but I didn't know being funny was a gift.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Funny
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