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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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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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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Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there's no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart.
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I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
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Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.
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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.
