Yolanda Hadid Quotes
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
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If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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It's hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.
