Sarah Shahi Quotes
It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.
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Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.
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On a bigger level, 9/11 was a crystallizing moment for my generation... the bubble popped. We were like, 'Whoa, this is what the real world is like; it's not all fun and games.'
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Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them.
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It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.
