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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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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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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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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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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I had sworn to administer justice 'faithfully and impartially.' To do otherwise would be to violate my oath. That meant I had no business of imposing my personal views on the country. Nor did I have the slightest intention of doing so.
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Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
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When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.
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I've got the hottest brand in the world.
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Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.
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My favourite animals are dogs.
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He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse: but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.
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God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
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I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.
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Rub one out like a man, it's the champagne of victory.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
