Nikki Yanofsky Quotes
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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I'm not a control freak.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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He could find no cure for his grief; but he did know that continued occupation would relieve him, and therefore he occupied himself continually.
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I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.
