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.

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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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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!
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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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.
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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.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
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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.
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You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I learned early on the magic of life is having a vision, having faith, and then going for it.
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I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.
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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.
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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.
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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People might think you can turn creativity on and off, but it's not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's gonna happen, but when it does ... it's like magic. It's just that simple and it's just that hard.
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The '90s were really just bad for fashion and hair.
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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.