Yasmine Al Masri Quotes
I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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Drugs scared me.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.
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I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.
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The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?
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I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
