Yasmin Zarine Shahmir (Yasmin) Quotes
It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.
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I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.
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It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.
