Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.
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In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.
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The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.
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My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work.
