David Dastmalchian Quotes
I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.
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These are places I would want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.
