Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.
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I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.
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I think it's cool that people care so much where I'm going to end up or what I'm going to do.
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I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
