Maz Jobrani Quotes
I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
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You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
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I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.
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I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.
