Darren Shahlavi Quotes

It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.

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• 'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.

  

  Patina Miller
  • School
  • Hair
  • Couple

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Water
  • Film
  • Years

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Home is where your rump rests.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Home
  • Where
  • Your

• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Promise

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Believe
  • American
  • Dream

• Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Great
  • Lazy
  • Working Hard

• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Writing
  • Creativity
  • Mathematics

• There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Start
  • Planning

• I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Mother

• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Always

• The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • History
  • Best

• I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Black
  • Joy
  • Beauty

• Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • First
  • Survival
  • Priority

• That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Ridiculous

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Church

• Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Die

• I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Up
  • Women
  • Feminist

• It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.

  

  Darren Shahlavi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important