Yara Shahidi Quotes
There are so many times in life when you have to suppress what you're feeling. A lot of kids have to deal with that in a school environment: You're not allowed to be happy, sad, depressed, over the moon. Being an actor not only do I get to play an angsty teen, but I get the support that I need to be Yara.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.
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There are so many times in life when you have to suppress what you're feeling. A lot of kids have to deal with that in a school environment: You're not allowed to be happy, sad, depressed, over the moon. Being an actor not only do I get to play an angsty teen, but I get the support that I need to be Yara.
