Nikki Grimes Quotes
I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.
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I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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Colour can raise the dead.
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I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien.
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I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.
