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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We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project.
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Women want a man who can say I love you every night and prove it every day.
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
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The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.
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The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.
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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.
