Nicole Maines (Nicole Amber Maines) Quotes

Having trans people play trans roles show that we are valid in our identities, and we exist.

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• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• The Bee Gees no longer exist.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Exist
  • Bee
  • Longer

• If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Record
  • Exist
  • Get

• You exist only in what you do.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • You
  • Exist
  • Brainy

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Action
  • Playing

• Death does not exist.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Exist
  • Does

• I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Image

• I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Roles
  • Films

• But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!

  

  Ariana Grande
  • High
  • Dream
  • Roles

• My God! Middle Earth does exist!

  

  Elijah Wood
  • God
  • Earth
  • Exist

• Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • People
  • Exist

• I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early to say which ones. It's a pretty competitive fight. And that doesn't mean the older guys are just going to walk into spots. I remind them all the time - you got to earn everything you get. And that's what made our team good last year, is guys really competed for opportunities and understood their roles.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Want
  • Choices
  • Feels

• Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Light

• O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Work
  • Women
  • Force

• To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Love
  • Power
  • Play

• A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.

  

  Nancy Chodorow
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Exist
  • Permissible

• Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Virtue
  • Create
  • Christianity

• I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Relationship
  • Waiting
  • Enjoy

• As a nation, we need to do everything we can to make sure those who have served have the tools they need to succeed in civilian life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Succeed
  • Tools

• Having trans people play trans roles show that we are valid in our identities, and we exist.

  

  Nicole Maines
  • Roles
  • Exist
  • Identities