Dascha Polanco Quotes
I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
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Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.
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Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago.
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.
