Nina Shaw Quotes

'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.

Nina Shaw

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• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Best
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Magic

• I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Magic

• I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Cool

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Character
  • Magic
  • First

• Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Different
  • Black
  • Doubt

• You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • You
  • Better
  • Magic

• A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Money
  • Magic
  • Release

• Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • She
  • Knowledge

• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Husband
  • Magic

• I learned early on the magic of life is having a vision, having faith, and then going for it.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Vision

• You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.

  

  Criss Angel
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Magic

• First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Writing
  • Magic

• A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

  

  Kristoffer Polaha
  • Science
  • Study
  • Magic

• Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

  Jenny Nimmo
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,' and they would all enjoy it for completely different reasons. I think that's part of the magic of the show.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Different
  • Children
  • Parents

• It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • She
  • Red
  • Lollipop

• No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• Robin and I had been good friends for nearly 30 years and that friendship survived our policy disagreements over Iraq, ... He was the greatest parliamentarian of his generation and a very fine foreign secretary. I deeply mourn his loss.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Time
  • Space
  • Technology

• 'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.

  

  Nina Shaw
  • Magic
  • Get Out
  • Black Girl