Nina Shaw Quotes
Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
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I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they're not reachable.
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I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.
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Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.
