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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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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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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Even when I was five years old, I was obsessed with space.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
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Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
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In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.
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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.
