Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) Quotes
I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.
Quotes to Explore
-
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
-
I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
-
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.
-
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
-
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
-
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
-
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
-
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
-
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
-
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
-
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
-
I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
-
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
-
Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
-
When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
-
I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
-
Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.
-
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
-
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
-
Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
-
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
-
I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.
