Domenica Costa (Nikka Costa) Quotes
It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else
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If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
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His lips, his soft and amazing lips, touch mine and the world spins with a different kind of magic. This kind isn't evil or hard, but lovely and wild, and I melt into it. He melts into it too, I can tell. I can feel how much he loves me just but the touch of his lips. And it is a good love, a really good love.
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.
