Nina Blackwood Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the time - in the street, on the train - you become a people person. People are very open to hearing a lot of different perspectives, and they aren't as sensitive.
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Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.
