Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'
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The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.
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Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
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I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
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What’s wrong with being naked?
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
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The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame.
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'Baahubali' was really the film that broke most barriers of what regional cinema can do nationally.
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
