Poorna Jagannathan Quotes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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I want to go down in history.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
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Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.
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I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.
