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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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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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
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To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
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Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
