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So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life.


Nina Conti

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NINA DOBREV It's interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the ref...
NINA GARCIA I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fictio...
NINA HAGEN It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe e...
NINA GARCIA I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.
NINA ARIANDA 'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hung...
NINA EASTON I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and le...
NINA SIMONE Invest in a couple of really good things - a great, classic coat; a good pair of shoes; and a timele...
NINA GARCIA Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by si...
NINA BAWDEN Starving to be skinny isn't my thing. When I don't eat, it affects my mood! On-set, I fuel u...
NINA DOBREV Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.
NINA SIMONE We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever ...
NINA EASTON One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Souther...
NINA EASTON India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other c...
NINA FEDOROFF I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what th...
NINA BAWDEN The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and...
NINA BLACKWOOD If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's w...
NINA EASTON The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, ...
NINA EASTON When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.
NINA BLACKWOOD You're both human and prone to error. Instead of focusing on what you do wrong, focus on what's righ...
NINA ATWOOD The idea that couples that play together stay together is very true. Like all good things, it takes ...
NINA ATWOOD Stay focused on self-direction and personal growth and away from finger-pointing. The behavior of lo...
NINA ATWOOD Couples need to let go of the notion that something's wrong if you're not enraptured with each other...
NINA ATWOOD I don't want to accept it because it's ridiculous to lose to someone like that. It was all on us. We...
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