Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.
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When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.
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We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
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I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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You cannot expect to be on intimate terms with everybody on your club, and there is no reason why you should be, so long as you are playing the game.
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There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."
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Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.
