Yael Quotes

#1. The guard grabbed Yael's hand, snapped his pen across her skin in two quick strikes. X marks the survivor.

Ryan Graudin

#2. Yael Meridan Schori

I'd grown up as a tomboy and had this "everything you can do, I can do better" kind of attitude.

Emily Spivack

#3. A diplomatic passport for a Tal Zahavi, with a current photo of Yael-1. The same birth date as in the other passport. The interior must have had fifty entry stamps for European and South American countries, plus the U.S., Japan, and South Korea. The woman traveled a lot.

John Sandford

#4. the truck. Yael was waiting at the front bumper, and as he came up to her, a sheriff's patrol car turned off the road and onto the track and accelerated toward them. Virgil said to Yael, "He's been shot, but he'll live. For the time being, anyway. He says he doesn't know anything

John Sandford

#5. Yael was a cobweb version, composed of gaps and strings and fragile nothings.

Ryan Graudin

#6. As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.

Yael Dayan

#7. I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose ... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

Yael Grobglas

#8. My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

Yael Naim

#9. One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

Yael Stone

#10. Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yael Grobglas

#11. In Australia, kids play in American accents.

Yael Stone

#12. Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

Yael Stone

#13. Regret is not the same as guilt. It is expressed by: 'I can't believe I did that. It's not like me. This is not how I am! How could I do such a thing?' It means to see ourselves as the best we can be, and to be disappointed in not living up to that.

Yael Shahar

#14. I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

Yael Stone

#15. I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

Yael Naim

#16. Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

Yael Naim

#17. It's what we're meant to do, she thought. Live the best way we can. And then we're meant to die.

Yael Politis

#18. As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

Yael Naim

#19. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Yael Naim

#20. My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

Yael Naim

#21. Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Yael Naim

#22. Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

Yael Cohen

#23. I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.

Yael Naim

#24. I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Yael Naim

#25. King of all Animals'.

Yael Aharoni

#26. I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

Yael Grobglas

#27. I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

Yael Stone

#28. Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.

Yael Cohen

#29. I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

Yael Naim

#30. Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

Yael Grobglas

#31. Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yael Grobglas

#32. There is a continuity in our lives - a strain of music that flows through it all, unaltered by death or pain. It is true that in the face of pain and death, we are very small. But in the face of life and memory and love, even death is very small.

Yael Shahar

#33. My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

Yael Stone

#34. English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

Yael Naim

#35. Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

Yael Stone

#36. I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

Yael Naim

#37. this family? No wonder Leah tried to stay away from her aunt.

Yael Levy

#38. Every action in this world, every word, every thought, has an effect. But the actor is also acted upon by his action. The condition on which you are allowed to make a change in the world is that the world changes you as well.

Yael Shahar

#39. As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

Yael Grobglas

#40. The power of collective memory does not lie in its accurate, systematic, or sophisticated mapping of the past, but in establishing basic images that articulate and reinforce a particular ideological stance.

Yael Zerubavel

#41. Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.

Yael Stone

#42. It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

Yael Stone

#43. Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

Yael Naim

#44. In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

Yael Naim

#45. Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

Yael Naim

#46. I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

Yael Naim