Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
Adam Driver
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
Sadie Frost
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
Yasmine Bleeth
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Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.
David Harewood
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Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.
Lee Atwater
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Fran Lebowitz
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Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with mentorship from female role models who have established themselves in tech fields where women, and minority women in particular, tend to be underrepresented.
Kimberly Bryant
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I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'
Kyle Kinane
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School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
