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Nina Simone Quotes

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003

Topics

Community Time Expectations Shoulders

Films used to be an event that required work and effort to get to a theater to see. Now, really good content is available immediately to us on many devices. At the same time, the audience's appetite for storytelling is evolving, and people want to spend time with characters for many years.

Work Good Time Effort People Want

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Words I Can Say Deception Honest

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Stand American Violence Know Why

Theatre is a playground. It really is, and we should use that playground more.

Theatre Playground More Should Use

There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to the L.A. Philharmonic and feel that Giulini was there.

History Feel Done Way Mysterious

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

Success Actor Realist Pretty Low

With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if you need to escape the same dreary titles.

Death Wind World Looking Conquer

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.

Great Mindset Go Something Wanting

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

Feel Important More Hire Something

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

Milo Ventimiglia

Path Me Artist Things Chosen Most

I have five major corporations, and I operate them. How could I be retired?

Donald Sterling

Think Long Why Never Anything Going

It was so much fun to work with the cast on 'School of Rock'. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.

Work Great Experience School Fun

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