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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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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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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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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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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Out of what... a thousand?
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When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.
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I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia.
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My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.
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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.
