#kin

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward. ↗

— Nia Long

#backwards #break #coming #feature #forward

It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.' ↗

— Nia Long

#after #almost #auditioned #film #get

Music is the universal language of mankind. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#mankind #music #universal #universal language

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#day #end #end of the day #hear #hope

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#dance #funk #get #hip-hop #i

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#helpful #i #i do #kind #know

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#ideas #making #new #new ideas #new ways

I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#album #bit #hundred #i #last

They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#laughing #making #marrying #me #out

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me. ↗

— Steven Lopez

#automatic #away #become #could #had