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.

Nikki Grimes

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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.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Character
  • Really
  • Longer

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• '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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Want
  • Play
  • Capable

• Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Today
  • Sex

• I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Government
  • Tired
  • Media

• 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.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Self
  • Mystery
  • Ultimate

• 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.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Job
  • Day
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Future
  • Tomorrow

• 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.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• 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.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stage

• I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • American
  • True
  • Want

• To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Memories
  • Voyage
  • Homeward

• I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Children
  • Why
  • Book

• I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Travel
  • Map
  • iPhone

• As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so that the brick isn't even there, but obviously it is because Moe can hit Curly on the head with it. It's quite bizarre and all relative.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Technology
  • Level
  • Relative

• I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.

  

  Gabriel Orozco
  • Time
  • Work
  • Artist

• I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

  

  Nikki Grimes
  • Artist
  • Laugh
  • Reasons