Domenica Costa (Nikka Costa) Quotes
If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Straight people are everywhere!
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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I'm a normal guy.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!
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I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.
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If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.
