Nasim Pedrad Quotes
I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.
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The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
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Hell, that's why they make erasers.
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Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with mentorship from female role models who have established themselves in tech fields where women, and minority women in particular, tend to be underrepresented.
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Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
