Nadia Bjorlin Quotes
My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I'm a normal guy. I'm not a chef.
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If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.
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Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.
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And he wore a kingly crown; And in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his brow this mark I saw - 'I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!'
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Trends don't interest me.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
