Nargis Fakhri Quotes
I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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Children need to have a home. I don't mean a physical four walls and a room. There needs to be an emotional and spiritual and loving place in life. That's what a family is.
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The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
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When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
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I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.
