Ann Nocenti Quotes

I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.

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• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • High
  • Running

• When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Long
  • Night
  • Ride

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Science
  • Energy
  • Problems

• I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • House
  • Child
  • California

• When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Exercise
  • Find
  • Gym

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Road
  • New

• I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Alone

• I don't think you should limit what you read.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • You
  • Limit

• We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Family
  • Right

• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Know
  • Act
  • I Can

• There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Movie
  • Just
  • Point

• My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Give

• My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Balance
  • Theory
  • Key

• To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Hope
  • Future

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She

• I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • Japanese
  • Legend
  • Anime

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• 'The Blacklist' was really right place, right time. I read the script and met with Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox and John Davis, and we just hit it off. They understood that I was not so much trying to adapt to television, but adapt a cinematic style to the things that we were gonna do.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Style

• I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.

  

  James Van Der Beek
  • Life
  • Romantic

• I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Japanese