Nina Quotes - Page 2

• I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Thinking, People, Stranger

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton: "Nina Jones?" Gracie: "I've never heard of her either, because she gave up."

  Gracie Allen

  Determination, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

  Michel Martin

  Thinking, Prodigies, Fairs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Every time I got drunk, this girl named Nikki would show up. When I got drunk, I was just a different person. This is a totally different person than Lisa. When these two started to battle it out, I had to create a third person to come in and straighten the two of them out. Nina, my evil twin who came from within, who I blame my sins on. (satanic alter) All the problems I did have stemmed from what I was doing - I was creating all these different personalities.

  Lisa Lopes

  Girl, Two, Creating

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• I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.

  Alaina Huffman

  Girl, Play, Nurse

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• I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Moving, Apples, Drawing

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.344, Penguin

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• Is this place called Virgins? Well, I shouldn't be here! -Nina

  Lisi Harrison

  Wells, Virgins

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• Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jesus, Doe, Honest

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

  Matt Smith

  Teenage, Turtles, Cartoon

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• The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

  John Lahr

  Generations, Talent, British

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• I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

  Tom Conti

  Father, Wonderful, Known

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• I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

  Monica Ali

  Eclectic Style, Taste, Singh

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• I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

  Miriam Makeba

  Brother, Player, White

  "Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa Goes Home". J. Poet, Crawdaddy! Magazine, February 11, 2009.

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• I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.

  Carey Mulligan

  Couple, Disappointment, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

  Catherine McCormack

  Ipods, Bob, Radio

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

  Ian Dury

  Hyenas, Affair, Has Beens

  Song: Billericay Dickie

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• So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone
  And defecating on your microphone.

  Lauryn Hill

  Rap, Als, Microphones

  "Song: 'Ready or Not'". 1996.

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• Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on at 6am and I need to be warmed up gently, it's always Ella Fitzgerald or Nina Simone.

  Natalie Dormer

  Cheesy, Needs, Ballads

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• I mean it’s never a problem
  making out with Nina Dobrev, I
  mean that’s always really
  cool!

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Problem, Really Cool

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• Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

  Kristin Hannah

  Black And White, Self, Color

  Kristin Hannah (2010). “Winter Garden”, p.49, Macmillan

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• It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a quest that is unmistakably timely. But in its yearning for awareness and connection, this book feels timeless.

  K. M. Soehnlein

  Book, Narrators, Connections

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• When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Girl, Next, Carolina

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• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Jobs, Leader

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• Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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