Jorge Luis Flores Sanchez (Nina Flowers) Quotes
I started doing drag, after attending a beauty school in Puerto Rico. I was around 19 to 20 years old. I practiced on myself and liked how I evolved into a new persona by using make up.
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Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.
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Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
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I'm really blessed. I love my job. Love going to work. I just love it. I love getting it, I love preparing for it. I love the whole process. I love the whole ritual. I'm really very lucky. Lucky girl.
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The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.
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I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.
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I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.
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In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.
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A band can define their own success.
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I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.
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I always get to eat what I want because if I don't, I go insane.
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The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.
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Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
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When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We can make the way somebody walks funny. The makeup can be funny.
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I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.
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I started doing drag, after attending a beauty school in Puerto Rico. I was around 19 to 20 years old. I practiced on myself and liked how I evolved into a new persona by using make up.
