Nina Shaw Quotes

'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.

Nina Shaw

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GirlDayMeBlackDoingMagic

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

Jenny Slate

WorkEnjoyWhiteGrandfatherJewish

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Andrew Shue

LifeStrengthLiveSimplePeople

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

Meghan O'Rourke

TimeDeathGoodbyeLongYouSay

I really wanted to come into the Olympics.

Sonny Bill Williams

ComeWantedReallyOlympics

My wife collects knickknacks.

Sidney Poitier

Wife

It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.

Roger Rees

ReligionYouHimTurnSeemWorks

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

Lucy Alibar

YouInsideWhoPerfectionistStreak

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

ScienceThingsOnlyAppliedSciences

I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.

LL Cool J

GreatThinkOkayRadioTeenagers

I don't feel like I have to prove anybody right or wrong.

Jared Goff

FeelWrongProveRightLikeAnybody

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Dev Hynes

FunnyPeopleMeThinkYouTrue

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Donald Fagen

MeSingerWorseLikeEvenThan

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