Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.
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The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
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Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.
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I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
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At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.
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When you are at one with the world, you often find that the thing you seek is seeking you.
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When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
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I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
