Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
The people that are inclined to hate are also inclined to belosers. A loser could never congratulate a winner – it’s not in them
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.
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I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can't even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with.
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Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.
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I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
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Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.
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The people that are inclined to hate are also inclined to belosers. A loser could never congratulate a winner – it’s not in them
