Daron Malakian Quotes
I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.
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I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
