Yara's Quotes

#1. You better not be dead. This team is already overflowing with ankle spankers. I was looking forward to having more women around."
Yara's eyelids fluttered open. She blinked a few times, focused on him, and frowned.
"Ankle spanker? The only thing you've got that'll reach that far is your ego.

Lindsay Buroker

#2. Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

Harry Reid

#3. I'm going to sail up the Narrow Sea all the way to the Weeping Water. I'm going to march on the Dreadfort. I'm going to find my little brother. And I'm going to bring him home.

Yara

#4. At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

Yara Shahidi

#5. I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

Yara Shahidi

#6. Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#7. May the radiance of what you love, manifest in whatever you do.

Shilpa Menon

#8. For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.

Yara Shahidi

#9. 'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

Yara Shahidi

#10. I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.

Yara Shahidi

#11. I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.

Yara Shahidi

#12. L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

Yara Shahidi

#13. I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

Yara Shahidi

#14. Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

Yara Shahidi

#15. Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old?

Yara

#16. I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.

Yara Shahidi

#17. I envision a future where uniqueness is cherished.

Yara Gharios

#18. Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.

Yara Shahidi

#19. Of course, it'll be up to you to convince Ridgecrest that Sespian is the candidate he wants to side with," Amaranthe said.
"Me," Sicarius stated at the same time as Maldynado asked, "Him?"
"You three. As a group."
"That'll be a unique conversation," Yara said.

Lindsay Buroker

#20. We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.

Jenny Slate

#21. Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

Yara Shahidi

#22. Going through a tragedy leaves an impression on people's souls. Once you've had a loss, you learn to deal with it and move on, but you carry that hurt with you always" - Yara Silva 'Intrinsical

Lani Woodland

#23. One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'

Yara Shahidi

#24. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.

Herman Melville

#25. I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

Yara Shahidi

#26. Make the big time where you are!

Frosty Westering

#27. I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

Yara Shahidi

#28. Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.

Yara Shahidi

#29. I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

Yara Shahidi

#30. Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you're at your worst.

Yara Bashraheel

#31. I have seen your disregard for other's hearts. I would not choose to trust you with mine

Kalayna Price

#32. My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.

Yara Shahidi

#33. So, Yara brings Brent home to meet her parents, and he ends up in the E.R.

Lani Woodland

#34. Hey look, Yara, there's someone driving the car."
"Ha, ha," Cherie grumbled. "You two haven't come up
for air since we picked Yara up from the airport."
"Circle the block," Brent instructed. "I'm not done
kissing her yet.

Lani Woodland

#35. When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

Yara Shahidi