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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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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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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Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
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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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I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.
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I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.
