Tatyana Ali Quotes
I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'
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Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
