Sarah Shahi Quotes

I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

Sarah Shahi

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• I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

  

  Oren Peli
  • History
  • Know
  • Find

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Party
  • Singing
  • Child

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Different
  • Home
  • Movie

• Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Door
  • Walking

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Work
  • Succeed
  • Unbelievable

• Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

  

  Arundhati Roy

• I only listen to myself, I hate to say. I don't got time to listen to nobody else. There's a lot of guys out there, but I only listen to myself.

  

  Mark Curry
  • Time
  • Hate

• I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Father

• I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • School
  • Action
  • Comedy

• I don't really dress up for Halloween.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Up
  • Halloween

• If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd

• I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

  

  Christopher Guest

• If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Colleagues

• Jenny McCarthy has used her celebrity and sex appeal to attract attention to autism. And while no one questions McCarthy's determination and passion, many scientists have debunked her anti-vaccine message and her claims that a gluten-free diet can provide a cure.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Free
  • Attention
  • Passion

• Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • Attention
  • Force
  • Patient

• I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Attention
  • Episodes
  • Sopranos