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Masiela Lusha

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Film actress

Masiela Lusha is an Albanian film actress known for her remarkable performances in several internationally renowned films. Born on October 23, 1985, she has demonstrated a passion for acting from a young age. Lusha's career began with television commercials, and she gradually made her mark in the film industry.

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“Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.”

Mind Kissing Poetry Is Subconscious Subtlety Lyrical Subconscious Mind

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“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”

“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”

Art Moments Actors Loses Acting Emotion Audience Forever Honest Source Becoming Performances Surface Lofty

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“When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.”

Heart Acting Pure Profession Selfless Pursued Pure Heart

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“Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.”

Break Complexes Sensitive

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“Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.”

Ifs Persons Would Be Compassion One Thing Strive Strife Better Person Being A Better Person

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“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.”

Giving Shows Together Night Offers Lifetime Every Night

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“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.”

“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.”

Children Book Stories Passion Belief Written Talent Adventure My Children Nurturing Children's Books

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“My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.”

America Mother Opportunity Wish Promise Cradle

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“There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.”

People Running Blood Example Proud Veins Hospitality Softness Albanian

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“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.”

World Needs Children Passion My Own Quiet Filled Hunger Feds Void Ownership My Own World

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“I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for popularity is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.”

People Attention Silence Study Strive Privilege Actresses Atmosphere Isolation Contradiction Inattention

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“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.”

Children Feelings Mother Pages Organized This Day Strongest Associates Lullaby

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“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.”

Should Children Book Self Expression Expectations Tools Poetry Is Exploration Self Expression

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“In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.”

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“I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.”

Writing Years Actresses Writing Poetry

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“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.”

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“My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.”

Humanitarian Who I Am Defined This Day Refugee Albania

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“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.”

Needs Feels Art Young Degrees Heal Mediums Void Refugee

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“English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.”

Years Mind Believe Children School Language I Believe Special Listening Six Broke Fourth Public School English Language Wraps Michigan Six Year Olds Hungarians Albanian Special Education

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“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.”

Way Writing May Sometimes Seems Together Language Bits Former Odd Writing Poetry Stitches

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“I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.”

Needs Feels Style Live By

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“I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.”

Feels Language Needed

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“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.”

People Knows Years Real Actors Felt Acting Cameras Screens

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“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.”

Enough Turns Reading Waiting Week Restless

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“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.”

Thinking Needs Wells Character Hands Actors Add Scripts Dialogue Layers Symbolism Intricacy

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“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.”

Thinking School Beautiful Reading Literature Acting Study Going Back To School Close Reading

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“For me especially, I always need that literature medium.”

Needs Literature Mediums

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“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.”

Needs Writing Kind Character Eye Able Film Three Months Three Months

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“I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be able to cleanse myself from this unless I do something that's a different medium but also creative. That's what I do. It's my little ritual. After every filming, I just write a poem about it and my character specifically and I can let her go.”

Thinking Writing Littles I Can Different Character Able Order Creative Mediums Ritual Let Her Go

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“I always have to do more to contribute to society.”

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“Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author can be, it's usually only a reflection of what the reader can interpret, and based on their own personal experiences.”

Thinking Feels Sometimes Reader Reflection Poetry Is Transparent Personal Experiences

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“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.”

Sometimes Enough Stories Felt Written Reader Scary Vague Transparent Literal

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“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.”

Sometimes Elements Add Rhythm Layers Cadence Pronunciation

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“We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.”

Heart Poet Labor Insanity Muse Duality Stalking Alphabet Carving

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“Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.”

Understood Longing Bounds Primal

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“As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.”

Virtue Poet Filled Envy Glorious Angle Lamentation

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“We fall in love forever many times, and many times we die.”

Dies Fall Forever Falling In Love Forever Love

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“I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.”

Knows Way Sometimes Know How Instinct Predictable Stitches

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“I'm actually very spiritual.”

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“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.”

Feels Different Religious Sentiments Globes Different Families

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“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.”

Believe Different Spiritual Force I Believe Greater Ritual

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“I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.”

My Own Written Identity

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“I know that there's this one Albanian myth that's always reflected on, and I think it reflects on the actual core culture. That myth is called The Besa. B-E-S-A. The Besa is a word that Albanians use to mean avow, but it's such a strong promise, that even past death, one cannot break that promise. It is unfathomable. So if you give someone your besa, life or death, heaven or hell, you have to fulfill that besa.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Mean Use Past Culture Strong Heaven Break Hell Promise Myth Core Unfathomable Life Or Death Albanian Heaven Or Hell

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“Definitely routine is the bedrock of our relationship.”

Routine Our Relationship Bedrock

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“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.”

Choices Taught Poet Stronger Actresses Our Words Our Choices

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“If I'm not writing a poem to decompress from my experiences on a movie set, I usually just cook and it's like meditative. Especially since I'm at the stage now where I don't really use measuring cups. Kind of instinctual, I just kind of prepare my own dishes as I go along.”

Ifs Writing Kind Use My Own Stage Cups Cooks Dishes Measuring Using Me Movie Sets

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“I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.”

Enough Differences Taste Add Ingredients Pizza Love Making Dough Cauliflower

Author:Masiela Lusha

“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.”

Thinking Littles Stills Heaven Childhood Mom My Mom Bread This Day Cheese Snacks Cucumbers Feta Cheese

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About the Author

Born: October 23, 1985
Known for: Film actress
Quotes: 55

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