Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Babasaheb -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
Sam Smith -
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming -
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
Quincy Jones -
I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
Ingrid Newkirk -
What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
Jack Kilmer -
'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
Kate Winslet -
If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
Wayne Rooney -
Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.
Olympia Snowe -
Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
Mahesh Babu -
I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often. 'Part 2 - Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich' PBS Newshour (27 June 2017)
Warren Buffett
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Radio is a hungry monster that eats very fast.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots -
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto -
When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.
Jermain Defoe -
Art destroys silence.
Alicia Ostriker -
You're only as good as your last book.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.