Nina Nastasia Quotes
I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.
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I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around.
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Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.
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She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
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Being down makes you think who you are.
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For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations - One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.
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I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.
