Yara Shahidi Quotes
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Anything can happen in a fight, and anything can happen in training.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
