Yasmin Paige Quotes

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.

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• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Like
  • Hearing

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue

• You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Done
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Happy
  • Risk
  • Failure

• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Beginning
  • Week
  • Plan

• I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Man
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Always
  • Pure
  • Sciences

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • May
  • Control

• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Christ
  • Really
  • Drinking

• Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Film

• The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • You
  • Will
  • Ready

• When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

  

  Future
  • Work
  • Music
  • Space

• Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Suffering

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • People
  • Father

• When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Passion
  • Firsts
  • Roles