"I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new."

-- Yara Shahidi

“The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.”
“I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.”
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
“Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]”
“Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much of a rush--and she might spill something, or do it wrong. But whenever possible she needs to learn, error by error, lesson by lesson, to do better. And the more she is able to learn by herself the more she gets the message that she's a kid who can.”
“A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.”
“You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.”
“They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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