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.
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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.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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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.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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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.
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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.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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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.
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The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
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For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
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What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.
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I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.
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I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
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I'm not going to say anything nasty about golf. I have a standing offer - and I've told this to Bill and Mike - that if they ever do a charity golf thing again, I will get knickers and a tweed cap and, never having touched a golf club in my life, I will take mushrooms and do a full eighteen holes. As long as is televised.
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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.
