Nneka Quotes
I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.
Nneka
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
Harold Pinter
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
Rachel True
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The world is too violent right now.
Jackie Chan
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
Naomi Scott
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
Calvin Johnson
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
Brown Campbell
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig Ziglar
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
Gary Lineker
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I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
Nathan Kress
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When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
Tea Obreht
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I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.
Kate Winslet
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
Felix Dennis
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
Imran Khan
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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
Karl Marx
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lf l am not mistaken, the words 'art' and 'artist' did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.
M. C. Escher
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
Viggo Mortensen
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From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled, Shaping fanciful playthings, with tireless hands, - Useless trumpery toys; and, with vaulting heart, Gave them unto all peoples, who mocked at him, Trampled on them, and soiled them, and went their way.
James Branch Cabell
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When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.
Eric Ripert
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
Freeman Dyson
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I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.
Nneka
