Nina Simone Quotes

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

Nina Simone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My brother and I are best friends.

Joel Edgerton

BestBrotherFriends

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

Jennifer Aniston

RelationshipMeSurviveTopCherry

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

Matthew Desmond

CommunityHealthImprovementEffort

I know that I can beat everybody, and this is what also gives me a lot of confidence and motivation for going out there and playing with a lot of emotion.

Angelique Kerber

ConfidenceMeMotivationI CanKnow

Rehearsing a scene beds a role into you. But sometimes, if you over-rehearse it without unearthing any new meaning in it, you can suddenly forget your lines. You realise that you are on a stage, not in the real world. The scene's emotional power, and your immersion in it, disappears.

Riz Ahmed

PowerWorldMeaningYouSometimes

I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures - not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo's quest.

Mary Pope Osborne

LoveLiveWorldSmallRichRoutine

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

DayEvery DayDancingHoursStudio

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Monica Bellucci

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For keeping hair long and healthy, I like to use silk pillowcases; they conduct less heat and keep your ends less frayed. Also, I sleep with my hair in a very loose top bun to keep my ends away from my body heat. This also keeps your hair from getting tangled at the nape of your neck.

Jonathan Van Ness

SleepHairLongBodyHealthyHeat

Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything - there's a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I'd like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.

Dominic Thiem

HappyConsistencyImportantPossible

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Donald Johanson

PathToolsWalkingTalkingYouBack

The gift of working on a Robert O'Hara play is that you have to trust his language. It's all in there. You don't have to add one single thing.

Colman Domingo

TrustGiftLanguageYouPlaySingle

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