Maz Jobrani Quotes
Any standup that you see who you go, 'Oh, wow, that guy's, you know, that guy's making it.' Inevitably, they've been doing it 10, 12 years - 10, 15 years. Because it takes time.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
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The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
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... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.
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Any standup that you see who you go, 'Oh, wow, that guy's, you know, that guy's making it.' Inevitably, they've been doing it 10, 12 years - 10, 15 years. Because it takes time.
