Yasmine Al Masri Quotes
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
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To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
