Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
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Anybody who has ever done anything knows that, when you believe, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to keep finding a way to align your vision with other people who will receive and accept your vision. And when the time is right, if it is for you, it will show itself, if you believe.
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The best hours of my life have been spent in a quiet corner or under a tree or on the beach with a book in my hands. I’ve been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I’ve figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who’ve told me that.
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There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.
