Yami Gautam Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
