Domenica Costa (Nikka Costa) Quotes
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I won't join another band again.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Speaking to humans was so vastly different from tweeting...But this way we all had to sit in the same set of thoughts for over an hour. The connection felt very good.
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.
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It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down.
