Saraya-Jade Bevis (Paige) Quotes
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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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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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
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Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.
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It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
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Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.
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Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.
