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I'm actually very spiritual.
I always have to do more to contribute to society.
Definitely routine is the bedrock of our relationship.
For me especially, I always need that literature medium.
We fall in love forever many times, and many times we die.
Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.
I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.
When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.
In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.
We're renting the space that we call Earth, so we may as well just go for it.
As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.
Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.
I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.
I feel like I try not to limit myself. So every experience so far, I've just gone headlong into.
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.
There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.
I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.
I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.
I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.
I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.
Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.
My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.
My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.
We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.
I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?
I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.
I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.
As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.
I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.
Being as restless as I am by nature, I couldn't simply just be on set, wait for my turn to rehearse for the week. And I kept reading, but it wasn't enough for me.
It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.
I think going back to school, studying as much as you can, especially literature and close reading some of the most beautiful works. You can always apply that to acting.
My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.
I didn't even know what acting was at 11 years old. I truly believed that acting was hidden cameras everywhere. And I felt that these actors on the screen were somehow real people.
Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.
I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.
I participated in many different rituals, but for me, I'm very spiritual and I believe that there's definitely be a greater force that defines us and leads us. For sure. No question for me.
While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.
I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.
There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem.
Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.
I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.
My mom makes this amazing little snack that, to this day, I still think about. It's pita bread wrapped with melted butter, feta cheese, and cucumbers. That, to me, is still heaven. It's my childhood.
I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's actually very painfully transparent what I've written. Sometimes very literal, which is scary.
Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever
I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well as the symbolisms of what the actor wears and what they hold in their hand because that only adds more layers to the character.