Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.
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I'm here to play football.
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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.
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As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.
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I have done my share of karaoke. There is a karaoke place right around the corner from me, and I have been there maybe 800 of 1,000 days I've been in L.A. A lot of songs I know now because of that place. I dig karaoke and have fun with it.
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Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
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My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.
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Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
