Nikki Yanofsky Quotes
Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known.
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Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for self-determination and freedom for centuries. The absence of such an identity doesn't automatically guarantee that we will be free of the images and ideals that fuel stereotypes about black identity. Changing the name will not alter the reality.
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I have a nice boat that I got a couple of years ago that's a Skeeter brand that's 20-foot, center-console. I have it set up for saltwater and for fresh water, so it's been a nice boat.
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Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.
