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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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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To me, country songs are simple.
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My first job in acting was in a Scott Baio movie called 'I Love N.Y.' My role was Italian Girl. I sent my 8x10 to a casting agent in the booklet, 'The Ross Report,' which is where all the agents were listed before that little thing called the Internet. I read for this tiny part. I couldn't have been more excited to get it.
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There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.
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It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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We looked like a garage band. We didn't know if it was going to work out, so we rented a lot of the stuff.
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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.
