Nina Blackwood Quotes
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.
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My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.
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Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.
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When you pray, do not use vain repetition. But remember, not all repetition is vain. The Lord cannot hear enough how wonderful are his works and mighty is his power. Because they are and it is. That is not vanity. Those are just facts.
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I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.
