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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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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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 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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We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
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I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.
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Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.
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I moved out of home when I was 15.
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The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
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I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.'
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To a large extent, we're working hard to fulfill the consumer demand for Subway sandwiches.
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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.
