Normani Kordei Hamilton (Normani) Quotes
I started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.
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When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
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The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.
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I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.
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I started off in dance. That was actually my first passion, which introduced me to music, which people don't really know.
