Nina Quotes - Page 2

• The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Inspiration, Artist, Singers

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• That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

  Ellen Page

  Beautiful, Song, Cat

  Source: collider.com

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• I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Want, Saws

  Source: www.theroot.com

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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 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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• I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.

  Nikki Giovanni

  New York, Careers, House

  "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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Jobs, Eye, Doe

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

  Sally Phillips

  Funny Friend, Monkeys, Pubs

  "A funny five minutes with Sally Phillips". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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