Nadine Velazquez quote: "As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls."

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's alway...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potent...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitiou...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are ...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie shou...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means sta...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I would love to have a drink with Meryl Streep or Prince. Those are my top two people I would love t...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned ...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracur...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealo...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I like men in suits. Men in suits I think are so sexy. But I love men in suits who own their own bus...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on he...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boot...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my go...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, othe...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire w...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and fl...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community&...
NYDIA VELAZQUEZ

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.
NYDIA VELAZQUEZ

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their sid...
NYDIA VELAZQUEZ

I don't know the specifics.
ANDREW VELAZQUEZ

There are many professional organizations for police and fire. This is a professional organization t...
ANDREW VELAZQUEZ

This is a very important group that works toward insuring preparedness and working with local govern...
ANDREW VELAZQUEZ

I will be going there to talk to my counterparts, both in the United States and in Europe, to talk a...
ANDREW VELAZQUEZ

Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, hel...
NYDIA VELAZQUEZ

Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same withou...
NYDIA VELAZQUEZ

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupu...
NYDIA VELAZQUEZ

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.
NYDIA VELAZQUEZ

We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed rea...
JOHN VELAZQUEZ

The race is totally winnable.
IGNACIO VELAZQUEZ

What is happening now is republicans are starting to work together.
IGNACIO VELAZQUEZ

(Perkins' withdrawal) doesn't affect it. I'm still going to do the same thing - getting to the peopl...
IGNACIO VELAZQUEZ

Bob knows that his expertise and guidance are needed by the agricultural industry in Monterey County...
IGNACIO VELAZQUEZ

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the bur...
NADINE LABAKI

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
NADINE LABAKI

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. J...
NADINE LABAKI

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
NADINE LABAKI

I'm just someone who observes a lot.
NADINE LABAKI

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I t...
NADINE LABAKI

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.
NADINE LABAKI

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possib...
NADINE LABAKI

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one s...
NADINE GORDIMER

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER

The facts are always less than what really happened.
NADINE GORDIMER

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
NADINE GORDIMER

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by m...
NADINE GORDIMER

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi...
NADINE GORDIMER

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
NADINE GORDIMER

If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
NADINE STAIR

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest ven...
NADINE GORDIMER

You have to do many things yourself. Things that you cannot delegate.
NADINE GRAMLING

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
NADINE GORDIMER

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
NADINE GORDIMER

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending p...
NADINE GORDIMER

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here...
NADINE GORDIMER

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearin...
NADINE GORDIMER

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that af...
NADINE GORDIMER

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi...
NADINE GORDIMER

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow t...
NADINE GORDIMER

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
NADINE GORDIMER

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small...
NADINE GORDIMER

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
NADINE STAIR

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMER

A desert is a place without expectation.
NADINE GORDIMER

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
NADINE LABAKI

If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up...
NADINE STAIR

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, wr...
NADINE GORDIMER

Books don't need batteries.
NADINE GORDIMER

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the de...
NADINE GORDIMER

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
NADINE GORDIMER

She filled her house with blacks, and white parsons who went around preaching Jesus was a revolution...
NADINE GORDIMER

That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to h...
NADINE GORDIMER

When you have a generic policy that says 'all,' it's the same as having no policy at all. We should ...
NADINE SMITH

If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes the next time
NADINE STAIR

Somebody has donated the use of their 80-foot yacht. Because these are big dolphins, we need a big s...
NADINE SLIMAK

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
NADINE GORDIMER

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMER

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter
NADINE GORDIMER

He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to Sout...
NADINE GORDIMER

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my ch...
NADINE GORDIMER

The ACLU is using the occasion of his birthday to launch a nationwide awareness campaign to renew th...
NADINE STROSSEN

You don't know what questions to ask when you start. My first daughter spent three months in intensi...
NADINE VOGEL

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
NADINE GORDIMER

But she does it anyway, and I sit beside her...because strength is a choice.
NADINE BRANDES

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn...
NADINE GORDIMER

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
NADINE GORDIMER

They have put together a draft proposal that outlines where the trails could go.
NADINE LEMMON

My only goal is to stall you so long you run out of money and have to sell this place and move away.
NADINE LEMMON

My only goal is to stall you so long you run out of money andhave to sell the place and move away.
NADINE LEMMON

This is an important time for the public to get their input into the plan. If people have ideas of o...
NADINE LEMMON

We're at the point where we would like to get public input. We want people to point out if there are...
NADINE LEMMON

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and y...
NADINE GORDIMER

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves wh...
NADINE GORDIMER

Whole-grain foods contain fiber, vitamins, minerals and other things that are removed during refinin...
NADINE SAHYOUN

... what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers...
NADINE GORDIMER

Whole-grain foods contain fiber, vitamins, minerals and other things that are removed during refinin...
NADINE SAHYOUN

You can't govern against the people. One must have the humility to say: If the text is being misunde...
NADINE MORANO

But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and cros...
NADINE GORDIMER

This deployment feels like a little different deal and a different situation ... there'll be a lot m...
NADINE ROBERTS

This meet was a big step. Everybody realizes what it takes now.
NADINE JOSLIN

And of course it was all over Gooding that we were together.
NADINE TURCOTTE

George W. Bush and Al Gore shouldn't be talking about who's going to blink first. They should be tal...
NADINE SMITH

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMER

Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constr...
NADINE GORDIMER

We just want to have a say over our own water and manage it ourselves, like we always have.
DELFINO GARCIA VELAZQUEZ

You feel rage, you feel sadness.
DELFINO GARCIA VELAZQUEZ

Etiquette is the fine tuning of education
NADINE VON CONRAD

As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

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