David Dastmalchian Quotes
I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in my instincts. Writing is a craft that I work very hard at. And I have to train and continue to develop.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for.
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If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.
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I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in my instincts. Writing is a craft that I work very hard at. And I have to train and continue to develop.
