Nikky Finney (Lynn Carol Finney) Quotes
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I know all the critics.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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Nigerians are wiser now. May efforts of Government to change Nigeria be crowned with success. May we live in harmony with one another, in a politically stable, economically strong, prosperous, virile, United nation!
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I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
