Normani Kordei Hamilton (Normani) Quotes
I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
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When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
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I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I'd become.
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I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.
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I do my talking inside the Octagon.
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
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I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just feel like it's something that always been inside of me.
