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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	Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.   
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	It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.   
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	There are networks and executives who are willing to take risks on vastly different material, and as an actor, there are some really juicy roles to sink your teeth into.   
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	When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV.   
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	No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.   
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	This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					